The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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