Anton Chekhov Quotes, Artist Quotes, Two Quotes

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

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It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.

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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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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

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An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.

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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

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These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.

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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

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By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

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What a delight it is to respect people!

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