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The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.
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
Antón Pávlovič Čéhov
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Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
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The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
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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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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
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What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country the people have no morals and the boredom!
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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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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