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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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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What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
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A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.
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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
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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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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 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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Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.
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There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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My holy of holies is the human body.
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