The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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