What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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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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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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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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