The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
~ Anton Chekhov

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They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
~ Anton Chekhov

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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
~ Anton Chekhov

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If you can’t distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn’t undertake philanthropic work.
~ Anton Chekhov

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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov

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The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots.
~ Anton Chekhov

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