There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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