Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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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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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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