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The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov's Popular Quotes

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Anton Chekhov

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no que…

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

- Anton Chekhov

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

- Anton Chekhov

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Anton Chekhov

There is nothing new in art except talent.

- Anton Chekhov
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