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The Search for Truth – Anton Chekhov QUOTES FOR WRITERS

In the search for truth human beings take two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them forward. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the real truth at last.

Anton Chekhov
From The Duel and quoted in the opening of Gabor Maté’s In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Photo credit: Bruno van der Kraan 

6 comments on “The Search for Truth – Anton Chekhov QUOTES FOR WRITERS”

  1. beth
    November 13, 2022
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    so accurate and perhaps they will

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    • bridget whelan
      November 14, 2022
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      Perhaps but even the struggle towards it is worthwhile.

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      • beth
        November 15, 2022
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        I agree

  2. Sarah Waldock
    November 13, 2022
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    Gloomy buggers these Russian writers. He should try a good spicy meal to drive out the constipation of thought.

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    • bridget whelan
      November 14, 2022
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      A bit harsh on Anton? He does include the word perhaps

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      • Sarah Waldock
        November 14, 2022
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        You’re right, Chekhov is not as gloomy as most Russian writers, and can manage humour, as well as masterly description in ‘The Steppe’. But it must be something inherently Russian there making him make such a gloomy quote.

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