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““How does Chekhov’s artistic “programme” comment on the message of The Duel, and vice versa? I should like to be a free artist and nothing more, and I regret that God has not given me the power to be one. I hate lying and violence in all their forms. . . . Pharisaism, stupidity and despotism reign not in merchants’ houses and prisons alone. I see them in science, in literature, in the younger generation. . . . That is why I have no preference either for gendarmes, or for butchers, or for scientists, or for writers, or for the younger generation. I regard trade-marks and labels as a superstition. My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom— freedom from violence and lying, whatever forms they may take. This is the programme I would follow if I were a great artist.*””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“ “When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith."”
The Cherry Orchard • Anton Chekhov“Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.”
Man's Search For Meaning • Viktor E Frankl“Where have they gone, the brilliant, the insightful ones, the proud? ”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius