Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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