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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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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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Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.
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Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
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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 can't accept our nervous age, since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
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The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.
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In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
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When asked, Why do you always wear black?, he said, I am mourning for my life.
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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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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.
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He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
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Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.
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