For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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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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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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