Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVThis life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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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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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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