If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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You ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
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Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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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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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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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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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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