Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands o… - Anton Chekhov

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Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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About Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов) (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) (Old Style: 17 January 1860 – 2 July 1904) was a Russian short story writer and playwright.

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Native Name: Антон Павлович Чехов Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов Антонъ Павловичъ Чеховъ
Alternative Names: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Antón Pávlovič Čéhov Antón Pávlovich Chékhov Chekhov
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نعم , و لكن من المذنب ؟ اذا لم تكونوا سعداء فالذنب ذنبكم ! نعم , وماذا كنتم تطنون ؟ الانسان هو خالق سعادته. و بوسعكم , لو اردتم , ان تصبحوا سعداء , و لكنكم لا تريدون . أنتم تهربون من السعادة باصرار !

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

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