The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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