Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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