The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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