If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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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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