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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

Anton Chekhov

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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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Education Man Myself Regard Religious
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Problem Question Simplicity Solution Solve
Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Animal Better Bird Wolf
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Absolute Fiction Honesty Truth
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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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
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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Angry Answer Funny Heart Human Laughter Sincere Yourself
A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Character Childhood Goodness Manner Notice
Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Friendship Hate Love Respect
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
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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Knowledge Life Myself Philosophy
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Crisis Day Face Idiot Live

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