Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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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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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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