You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVI kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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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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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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