If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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