Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
ANTON CHEKHOVEach of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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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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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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