The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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