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.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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