Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo 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.
More Anton Chekhov Quotes
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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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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
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I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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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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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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