The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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