A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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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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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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