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A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
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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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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Life is a vexatious trap when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
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You look boldly ahead isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future because life is still hidden from your young eyes.
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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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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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