The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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