“You ask “What is life?” That is the same as asking “What is a carrot?” A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.”

—  Anton Chekhov

Letter to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov (April 20, 1904)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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