The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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