Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you want to work on your art, work on your life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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