You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVLife on earth is inconceivable without trees.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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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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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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