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"To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit."

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About Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer whose works became foundational to modern drama and fiction. He is recognized as one of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth century.

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