The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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 our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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