Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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