The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVLet us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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