Anton Chekhov - People Quotes

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It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

Anton Chekhov
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.

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov
Dinner at the "Continental" to commemorate the great reform [the abolition of the serfdom in 1861]. Tedious and incongruous. To dine, drink champagne, make a racket, and deliver speeches about national consciousness, the conscience of the people, freedom, and such things, while slaves in tail-coats are running round your tables, veritable serfs, and your coachmen wait outside in the street, in the bitter cold—that is lying to the Holy Ghost.

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

Anton Chekhov
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

Anton Chekhov
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

Anton Chekhov
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them...

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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.

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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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