In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn 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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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