A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
ANTON CHEKHOVI observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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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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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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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