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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.

Anton Chekhov

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
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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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
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.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Easy Money Poor Wealth
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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Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
What a delight it is to respect people!
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Delight People Respect
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Appearance Character Impression Judgment Sign
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Accomplishment Ethics Logic
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Afraid Fools Himself Thinking Writing
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Alone Hard Time Learning Lesson Life
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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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Feeling Hard Time Thinking Understand
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Earth Heart Snow Spring Yourself

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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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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