Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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