An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite, write, write-till your fingers break.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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