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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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I'm in mourning for my life.
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For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
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I can't accept our nervous age, since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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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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From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.
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Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
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