Quotes
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“I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.”
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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“I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.”
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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“An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.”
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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“ If I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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"Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.”
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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"We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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"Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something."
Anton Chekhov
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Seagull
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“An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist.”
Anton Chekhov
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Gooseberries
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“All his life he had not planted one tree in his own garden, nor grown one blade of grass; and living among the living, he had not saved one fly; he had done nothing but destroy and ruin, and lie, lie. . . .”
Anton Chekhov
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Gooseberries
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. "They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.”
Anton Chekhov
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Gooseberries
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide
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The Pastoral Symphony
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
Andre Gide
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The Immoralist
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The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. Like a train into which one jumps without thinking, and without asking oneself where it is going.
Andre Gide
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The Counterfeiters
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
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The Counterfeiters
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
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So Be It; or, The Chips Are Down
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Complete possession is proved only by giving.
Andre Gide
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Reflections on Literature and Morality
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Andre Gide
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Reflections on Literature and Morality
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Andre Gide
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Reflections on Literature and Morality
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Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
Andre Gide
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Reflections on Literature and Morality
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