Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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 is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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