The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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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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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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