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we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.
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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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, Oh! Life is so hard! and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
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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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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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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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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
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Nothing lulls and inebriates like money when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.
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If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
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