I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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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 confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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