When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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