Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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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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My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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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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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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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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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
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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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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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