The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly one who loves can remember so well.
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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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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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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A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.
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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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