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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Only entropy comes easy.
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Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.
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