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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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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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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?
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[In] death at least there would be one profit it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.
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A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
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Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
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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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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
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Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that each case be individualized. If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.
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[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand yet interrupt one another, themselves not even noticing it, contradict themselves with every phrase, change the subject, then, having argued for two or three hours, begin to laugh.
Anton Chekhov
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
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..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.
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