If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVBrevity – the sister of talent.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Man is what he believes.
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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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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.
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