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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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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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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: My work is literature.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
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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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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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I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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