The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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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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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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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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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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