If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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