If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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