To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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Man is what he believes.
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