I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
ANTON CHEKHOVDo you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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