The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you want to work on your art, work on your life.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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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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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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When asked, “Why do you always wear black?”, he said, “I am mourning for my life.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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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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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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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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