What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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