You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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