He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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