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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
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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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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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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A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.
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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.
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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
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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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Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
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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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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
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It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
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