Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
ANTON CHEKHOVNothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
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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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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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This life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
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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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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.
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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 short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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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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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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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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