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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
Antón Pávlovich Chékhov
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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
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I can't accept our nervous age, since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
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I'm in mourning for my life.
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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
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My holy of holies is the human body.
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck it's dragging me down to the bottom but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
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God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!
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If you wish women to love you be original I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.
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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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