Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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