Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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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 secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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