When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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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 have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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