You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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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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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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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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