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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.
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To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.
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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
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He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.
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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
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