You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of 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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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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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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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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