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Do you know, Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, for how many years I shall be read? Seven. Why seven? Bunin asked. Well, Chekhov answered, seven and a half then.

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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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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
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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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It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
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I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.
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Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
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I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
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The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.
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Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
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When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
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