We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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