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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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If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
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I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Every coming year is as bad as the previous one, the only difference being that in most cases it is even worse.
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In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...
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I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.
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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.
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