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There is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, Oh! Life is so hard! and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: Don't forget that I made you happy.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
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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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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?
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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
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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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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
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The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.
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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.
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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it
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