The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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