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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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I can't accept our nervous age, since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
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Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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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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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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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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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck it's dragging me down to the bottom but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
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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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Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.
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