Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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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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