I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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