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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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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think: Oh Lord, you've given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.
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Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: Don't forget that I made you happy.
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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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Brevity - the sister of talent.
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The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.
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The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
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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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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
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