We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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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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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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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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Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
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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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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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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be 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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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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