I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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