If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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