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One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.
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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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
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Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable.
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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
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In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We wont be there to see it - but its why we live, why we work. Its why we suffer. Were creating it. Thats the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.
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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.
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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.
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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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To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
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There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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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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If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
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