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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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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
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To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
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Women can't forgive failure.
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Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.
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The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.
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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.
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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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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
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Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
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Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.
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And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!
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