Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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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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