There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
ANTON CHEKHOVBrevity – the sister of talent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Man is what he believes.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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