He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
ANTON CHEKHOVTry to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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