An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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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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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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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.
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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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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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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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It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Do 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.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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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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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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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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Brevity – the sister of talent.
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