The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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