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From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will... Each hour is precious.
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.
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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
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Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.
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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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It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
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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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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table what is national is no longer science.
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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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To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
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