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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Anton Chekhov

Oh, 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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Myself People Reading Short Work
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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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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Boredom Depression Insult
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Discipline Goodness People Precise
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Honesty Job Realization Start Work Yourself
Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Action Discussion Hero Himself Mindset State
All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Future Hope Past Saint Sin
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alcohol Bed Death Lying
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Easy Feeling Happiness Impossible Man Silence
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Feeling Himself Myself Original Shoes Women
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Alcohol Drink Life Literature Reality Yourself
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.
ANTON CHEKHOV

Beautiful Dignity Earth Exception Human Life Ourselves Purpose

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