People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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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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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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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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