People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVOh, 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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