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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
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Man is what he believes.
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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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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.
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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
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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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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
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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 more cultured a man, the less fortunate he 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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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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