The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVAll saints have past and all sinners have a future.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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