The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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 world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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