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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Anton Chekhov

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Friendship Hate Love People Respect Unity
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
Man is what he believes.
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Believe Himself Man
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Earth Life Nature Tree
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
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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Cruelty Ego Happiness People Seperate Understand Unity White
My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Forget Future Important Serious Time Willing
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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