People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVA man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Man is what he believes.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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