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.
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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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