Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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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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