Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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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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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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