Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite only of what is important and eternal.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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 task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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