An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVI expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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Oh, 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.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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