Anton Chekhov Quotes

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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

Anton Chekhov

Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

Meaningful, Silly, Healthy

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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

Friendship, Respect, Hate

"The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography".

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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Anton Chekhov

Hard Times, People, Feelings

"Misfortune". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge, Technology, Practice

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People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

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Beautiful, Self, People

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

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Inspirational, Writing, Moon

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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

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Life, Success, Morning

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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Anton Chekhov

Being Yourself, Depressing, Insulting

"The Teacher of Literature". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.

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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

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Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3226, e-artnow

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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

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People, Saint, Sin

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3781, e-artnow

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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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Tasks, Problem, States

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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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Mean, Doe, Literature

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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.

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Academia, Philosopher, Easy

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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

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Want, Life Is, Conscious

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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

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Three, Born, Persons

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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

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Nature, Butterfly, Lovely

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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Anton Chekhov

Inspirational, Life, Illusion

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3128, e-artnow

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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Inspirational, Education, Age

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

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Dog, Believe, Meat

Anton Chekhov (2012). “Four Great Russian Plays”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

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Canaries, Pious

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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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Love, Family, Happiness

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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

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Purpose, Aim, Wiser

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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.

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Fool, Praise, Accepting

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3741, e-artnow

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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Men, Silence, Unhappy

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Born: January 29, 1860
Died: July 15, 1904
Occupation: Physician
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