People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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Women can’t forgive failure.
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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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.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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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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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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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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