There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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