Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
ANTON CHEKHOVWisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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 role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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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 snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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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