There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Man is what he believes.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.
~ Anton Chekhov

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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
~ Anton Chekhov

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The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
~ Anton Chekhov

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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov

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To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Anton Chekhov

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