If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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