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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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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table what is national is no longer science.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
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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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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
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If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
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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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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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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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Life is a vexatious trap when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.
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