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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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