If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan will become better when you show him what he is like.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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 aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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