Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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 more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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