The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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