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In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
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
Antón Pávlovich Chékhov
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You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.
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Only entropy comes easy.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.
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The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
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My love is like a stone tied round my neck it's dragging me down to the bottom but I love my stone. I can't live without it.
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Only one who loves can remember so well.
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