The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVTry to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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