The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVLet us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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