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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.
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When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
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[In] death at least there would be one profit it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.
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Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.
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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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