In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
ANTON CHEKHOVAny idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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