Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured."	Death
"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."	Peace
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day."	Destruction, Friends, Lies
"If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?"	Failure, Military, War

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