Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVBe sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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