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Anton Chekhov, A practicing physician who treated peasants for free by day and wrote by night, he brought the clinic into, gets quoted everywhere and sourced almost nowhere. The 5 quotes below are different: each one is checked word for word against the cited work, starting with Letter to Alexei Suvorin, not copied from aggregator sites that pass misattributions along. The source is named under every line, so you can trace each quote back to the page it came from.
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On juggling the job that pays and the work you love:
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexei Suvorin
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On enduring a hard stretch of life without answers:
If only we knew, if only we knew!Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters
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On finding a reason to keep working through disappointment:
We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
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On letting go of an inheritance that no longer fits your life:
The whole of Russia is our orchard.Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
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On what basic respect actually looks like in daily life:
Well-bred people respect the human personality, and therefore they are always indulgent, gentle, polite, and yielding.Anton Chekhov, Letter to Nikolai Chekhov