People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more refined one is, the more unhappy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Man is what he believes.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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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 during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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