You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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It’s easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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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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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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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 task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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