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Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.

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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
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
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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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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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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, Oh! Life is so hard! and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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If you wish women to love you be original I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
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In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
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Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country the people have no morals and the boredom!
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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.
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My holy of holies is the human body.
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Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
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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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You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
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