If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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