“Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.”

—  Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 27, 1889)
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