Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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