There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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