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.
ANTON CHEKHOVAny idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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