Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
ANTON CHEKHOVCalculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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You will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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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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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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People should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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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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Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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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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If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
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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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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
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Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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What a delight it is to respect people!
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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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