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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.Anton Chekhov
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There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live. .. we must work, just work!Anton Chekhov
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The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved…Anton Chekhov
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MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget. V E R S H I N I N. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence.Anton Chekhov
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But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow… Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!Anton Chekhov
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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.Anton Chekhov
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MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning? T O O Z E N B A C H: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?Anton Chekhov
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With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there.Anton Chekhov