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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
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
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The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.
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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
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I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
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A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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When asked, Why do you always wear black?, he said, I am mourning for my life.
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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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