The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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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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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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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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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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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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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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