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There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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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