All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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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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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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