You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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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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What a delight it is to respect people!
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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