Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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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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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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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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