The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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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If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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