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.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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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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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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