The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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