If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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