“By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. … I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.”

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 23, 1895)
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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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