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.
ANTON CHEKHOVWomen can’t forgive failure.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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Let 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.
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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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 during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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