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• There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

  Anton Chekhov

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "The Man in a Case". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

  Anton Chekhov

  Best Effort, Police, Criticism

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light ... I have a wife and two daughters, my wife's health is delicate and so on and so on, and if I had to begin life all over again I would not marry. ... No, no!

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  Daughter, Flower, Thinking

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Three Sisters”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Math, Punishment, Coarse

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

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  Soul, Desire, Charity

  "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

  Anton Chekhov

  Passion, Writing, Play

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• By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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  People, Firsts, Appearance

  "A Trivial Incident". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

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  Wall, Writing, Long

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• It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

  Anton Chekhov

  Punishment, Champion, Suffering

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• I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

  Anton Chekhov

  Reading, Years, Editors

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• That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

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  Can Not

  "A Letter to a Learned Neighbor". Short story by Anton Chekhov, March 9, 1880.

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• Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Love Is, Scandal

  "The Piano Player". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

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• Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Goal, Achieve

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Wealthy, Wells

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

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  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

  Anton Chekhov

  Time, Men, Remember You

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

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  Men, Civilization, Privacy

  Anton Chekhov (2010). “Five Plays”, p.5, Stanford University Press

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• A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

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  Umpires, Engagement, Shore

  "The Little Trilogy: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, about Love". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Noise, Fields

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• In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.

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  Army, People, Literature

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

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  Lying, Covered Up, People

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• In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, Struggle, Men

  "Uncle Vanya". Ply by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Mistake, Made

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• All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

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  Heart, Thinking, Scary

  "In the Cart". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• 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 am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

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  Moving, Writing, Conceited

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