Anton Chekhov Quotes About Life
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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
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"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
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For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
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We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.
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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.
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