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Up Quotes by Anton Chekhov
- Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now…
- Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people…
- Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I…
- Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back…
- The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the…
- Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows…
- When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already…
- This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
- You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you…
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