If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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