There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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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.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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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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