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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
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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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Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.
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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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