Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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