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“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
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(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
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“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your
mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does
self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and
steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles
without any effort on your part”
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mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does
self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and
steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles
without any effort on your part”
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“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
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(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
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“But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, however chance, written in the heart in the hope that memory will fulfill itself, and become flesh, and that the wanderers will find a way home, and the perished, whose lack we always feel, will step through the door finally and stroke our hair with dreaming, habitual fondness, not having meant to keep us waiting long.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
“She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there from the very beginning, a measured distance away, standing in the ordinary light like some plain house where one went in and was greeted by respectable people and was shown to a room where everything one had ever lost or put aside was gathered together, waiting.”
― Housekeeping
― Housekeeping
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