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.
ANTON CHEKHOVEveryone has the same God; only people differ.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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