Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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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 don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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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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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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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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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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