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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.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist he must abandon the subjective line he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
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What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all.
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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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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
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Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
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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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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
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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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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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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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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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I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.
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