The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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