When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
ANTON CHEKHOVKnowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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