I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
ANTON CHEKHOVNot one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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My 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.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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