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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
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
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
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People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—
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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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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
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To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist he must abandon the subjective line he must know that dungheaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
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When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in himself, as he should, but outside himself - hence the war with what he does not understand.
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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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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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I don't like being successful the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.
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Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.
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Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
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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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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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