Brevity – the sister of talent.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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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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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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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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