Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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