Anton Chekhov Quotes
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; anything that is national is not scientific.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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To advise is not to compel.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
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When a thinking person attains adulthood and develops a mature consciousness, he reluctantly feels himself in a trap from which there is no exit.
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
[Acting]
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
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