I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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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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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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