Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVOh, 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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 a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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