Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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