Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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