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Anton Chekhov

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
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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Better Enough Myself Reason Story
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Born Eat Life Person Right Road Yourself
Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better Himself Man
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Believe Impossible Life People Trust Yourself
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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Myself People Reading Short Work
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Correction Problem Solve State Writing
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
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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Flower Glorious Human Life Meadow Ourselves
You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking

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