Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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