The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of 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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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