Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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