Write only of what is important and eternal.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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