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Anton Chekhov

"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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"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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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

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"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."

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"Always ask yourself what will make you happy over the long term."

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"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
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"If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say: 'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!"
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"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths."
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"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."
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"We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor."
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"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
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"True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know."
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"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith."
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"My own experience is that once a story has been written one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If in the first chapter you say there is a gun hanging on the wall you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story."
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