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1. "A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat. From The Cherry Orchard" ~ Anton Chekhov
2. "Uneori, îmi aduc aminte, pe vremea când o faceam pe craiul, paraseam o femeie din cauza unei pete pe ciorap, din cauza unui cuvânt stupid...?i acum iert orice: mestecatul, ..., lipsa de îngrijire, discu?iile lungi despre oul pe care l-a mâncat. ?i eu iert astea aproape incon?tient, fara a-mi silui voin?a, de parca gre?elile Sa?ei sunt ale mele, iar multe dintre cele care odinioara ma chinuiau, ma fac acum sa ma înduio?ez sau sa cad în extaz.Motivul acestei iertari complete se afla în iubirea mea pentru Sa?a, dar unde sunt motivele iubirii înse?i, asta nu mai ?tiu..." ~ Anton Chekhov
3. "If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there." ~ Anton Chekhov
4. "E ca o piatra care-mi sta legata de gat si ma trage la fund, dar vezi, eu iubesc piatra asta si nu pot fara ea." ~ Anton Chekhov
5. "You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem and correctly formulating the problem. Only the latter is required of the artist." ~ Anton Chekhov
6. "Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!" ~ Anton Chekhov
7. "If you want women to love you, then don't be cross in front of them and don't go all pompous... -Anna Petrovna in Ivanov" ~ Anton Chekhov
8. "Dar cîti oameni sînt, frate, în Rusia, care nici nu stiu de ce sînt pe pãmînt!" ~ Anton Chekhov
9. "Üzerlerine çig damlalari düsmüs gür çiçeklerin boy attigi parki, bahçeyi, saçakli kökleriyle basi göklere eren çam agaçlarini, çavdar tarlasini, gelistirdigi bilimi, gençligini, cesaretini, sevinçlerini, güzelligine doyamadigi yasami yardima çagiracakti... Halinin üzerinde, yüzünün yaninda olusan kan birikintisini görüyor, bagirmak istedigi halde duydugu dermansizlik yüzünden bir sey söyleyemiyor, ama anlatmasi zor, sinirsiz bir mutluluk bütün bedenini dolduruyordu." ~ Anton Chekhov
10. "In the big house opposite someone was playing the piano at Dolzhikov's. It was beginning to get dark, and stars were twinkling in the sky. Here my father, in an old top-hat with wide upturned brim, walked slowly by with my sister on his arm, bowing in response to greetings."Look up," he said to my sister, pointing to the sky with the same umbrella with which he had beaten me that afternoon. "Look up at the sky! Even the tiniest stars are all worlds! How insignificant is man in comparison with the universe!"And he said this in a tone that suggested that it was particularly agreeable and flattering to him that he was so insignificant. How absolutely devoid of talent and imagination he was!" ~ Anton Chekhov
11. "La auténtica felicidad es impensable sin la soledad. El ángel caído engañó a Dios posiblemente porque quiso estar solo, soledad que no conocen los ángeles." ~ Anton Chekhov
12. "...nada pasa sin dejar una huella tras nosotros, y que cada acto nuestro, incluso el más insignificante, ejerce determinada influencia en nuestra vida presente y futura." ~ Anton Chekhov
13. "Din propria-mi experien?a, odata ce ai terminat de scris o poveste, trebuie sa tai partea de început ?i de final, pentru ca acolo ne cuibarim, noi autorii, majoritatea minciunilor." ~ Anton Chekhov
14. "Man will become better when you show him what he is like." ~ Anton Chekhov
15. "I feel like a donkey, with a stick in my mouth and a carrot up my ass." ~ Anton Chekhov
16. "And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive." ~ Anton Chekhov
17. "In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely..." ~ Anton Chekhov
18. "What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me." ~ Anton Chekhov
19. "Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins." ~ Anton Chekhov
20. "It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said." ~ Anton Chekhov
21. "And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!" ~ Anton Chekhov
22. "certain formalities. It is a great delight also to seal up a love-letter, and, slowly putting on one's hat and coat, to go softly out of the house and to carry the treasure to the post." ~ Anton Chekhov
23. "Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven." ~ Anton Chekhov
24. "Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me." ~ Anton Chekhov
25. "LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily." ~ Anton Chekhov
26. "I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?" ~ Anton Chekhov
27. "Kun ottaa onnen pieninä pätkinä, palasittain, ja sitten kadottaa sen, kuten minä, niin kovettuu vähitellen ja tulee kiukkuiseksi." ~ Anton Chekhov
28. "Gelin de zavalli bukalemunlara inanin siz! Öldürseler inanmam. Kim ne derse desin kül yutmam!" ~ Anton Chekhov
29. "Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them." ~ Anton Chekhov
30. "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." ~ Anton Chekhov
31. "Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way." ~ Anton Chekhov
32. "I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak." ~ Anton Chekhov
33. "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths." ~ Anton Chekhov
34. "When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life." ~ Anton Chekhov
35. "Rãsare luna. (Pauzã.) latã fericirea! Uite-o, vine, se apropie tot mai mult, tot mai mult, îi aud pasii. Si chiar dacã noi n-o vom vedea, n-o vom cunoaste, n-are nici o importanþã... Vor vedea-o altii!" ~ Anton Chekhov
36. "Since Samoylenko had left Dorpat, where he had studied medicine, he had rarely seen a German and had not read a single German book, but, in his opinion, every harmful idea in politics or science was due to the Germans. Where he had got this notion he could not have said himself, but he held it firmly." ~ Anton Chekhov
37. "From Koltovitch's copse and garden there came a strong fragrant scent of lilies of the valley and honey-laden flowers. Pyotr Mihalitch rode along the bank of the pond and looked mournfully into the water. And thinking about his life, he came to the conclusion that he had never said or acted upon what he really thought, and that other people had repaid him in the same way. And so the whole of life seemed to him as dark as this water in which the night sky was reflected and water-weeds grew in a tangle. And it seemed to him that nothing could ever set it right." ~ Anton Chekhov
38. "Unde e arta, unde-i talent, pâna ?i moartea-i ceva relativ..." ~ Anton Chekhov
39. "why do you style yourself "your worth- less and insignificant brother"? You recognize your insignificance? . . . Recognize it before God; perhaps, too, in the presence of beauty, intel- ligence, nature, but not before men. Among men you must be conscious of your dignity. Why, you are not a rascal, you are an honest man, aren't you? Well, respect yourself as an honest man and know that an honest man is not something worthless. Don't confound "being humble" with "recognizing one's worthlessness." . . ." ~ Anton Chekhov
40. "Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one." ~ Anton Chekhov
41. "Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out." ~ Anton Chekhov
42. "Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other." ~ Anton Chekhov
43. "People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about." ~ Anton Chekhov
44. "When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'" ~ Anton Chekhov
45. "If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go." ~ Anton Chekhov
46. "[W]hen peoplr are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers." ~ Anton Chekhov
47. "But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?" ~ Anton Chekhov
48. "The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them." ~ Anton Chekhov
49. "Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life." ~ Anton Chekhov
50. "Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are crumbs... and gherkins... It's disgusting!" ~ Anton Chekhov
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