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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
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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All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.
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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 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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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
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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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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
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It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
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Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.
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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
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Women can't forgive failure.
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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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In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We wont be there to see it - but its why we live, why we work. Its why we suffer. Were creating it. Thats the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.
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Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that each case be individualized. If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
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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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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.
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