Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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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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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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