People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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