Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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