The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more refined one is, the more unhappy.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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.
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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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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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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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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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