Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVThree o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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