If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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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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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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