The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVBetter to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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