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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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
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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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The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. 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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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
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Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...
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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
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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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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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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.
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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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