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You only have to start a job o...

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

If there's a gun on the wall i...

If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

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Perhaps the feelings that we e...

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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If ever my life can be of any ...

If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Nothing can be accomplished by...

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

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You've only got to begin to do...

You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: 'Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.

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What truth? You see where trut...

What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magna

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The role of the artist is to a...

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

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And I despise your books, I de...

And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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You have lost your reason and ...

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, ...

Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

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There is no national science, ...

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

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If you cry ''Forward'' you mus...

If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

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In short stories it is better ...

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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I've never been in love. I've ...

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

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Then I feel so happy and at th...

Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.

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Posterity will say as usual: ...

Posterity will say as usual: 'In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

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It's been a long time since I'...

It's been a long time since I've had champagne.

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My own experience is that once...

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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An artist's flair is sometimes...

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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