The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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