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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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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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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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it's tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
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There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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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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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
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It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
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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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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.
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