Anton Chekhov Quotes, People Quotes, Enough Quotes

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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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 . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

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To 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.

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We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.

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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.

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All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.

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Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.

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If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.

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There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

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A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.

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It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.

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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

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To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

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