Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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