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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.
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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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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One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.
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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
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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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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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