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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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All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.
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The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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Brevity - the sister of talent.
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country the people have no morals and the boredom!
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.
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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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Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table what is national is no longer science.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
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