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You are right in demanding tha...

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

If you look at anything long e...

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

When men ask me how I know so ...

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

If in the first act you have h...

If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

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To a chemist, nothing on earth...

To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.

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In descriptions of Nature one ...

In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

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I am writing a play which I pr...

I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

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I still lack a political, reli...

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

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Dear sweet unforgettable child...

Dear sweet unforgettable childhood.

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It always seems to the brother...

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

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You ask me what life is. That'...

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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Try to reason about love, and ...

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

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The time has come for writers,...

The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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It is time for writers to admi...

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

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The people I am afraid of are ...

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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I feel more confident and more...

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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All saints have past and all s...

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

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...and with a burning pain in ...

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

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A man wants nothing so badly a...

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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The time's come: there's a ter...

The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

Anton Chekhov 482 quotes

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