If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVMedicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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