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.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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