If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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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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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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