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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
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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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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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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
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It's not a matter of old or new forms a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
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