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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
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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One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.
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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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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.
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To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people's consciousness, the people's conscience, freedom andso forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen--this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.
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For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
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A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.
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I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.
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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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The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
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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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Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.
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It's been a long time since I've had champagne.
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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
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