If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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