Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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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 illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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