The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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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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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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