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Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it
Anton Chekhov
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Anton Chekhov
Age: 44 †
Born: 1860
Born: January 1
Died: 1904
Died: January 1
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It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
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After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, Oh! Life is so hard! and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
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The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
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And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
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Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
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