You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVThere is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life 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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Man is what he believes.
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