You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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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 person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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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 aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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