I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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