Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
ANTON CHEKHOVJust as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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