Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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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 snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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