Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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