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.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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