The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhen a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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