“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”

Fatherlessness or Platonov, Act I, sc. xiv (1878)

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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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