Women can’t forgive failure.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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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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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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 delight it is to respect people!
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