The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVFaith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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