If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Man is what he believes.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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