“To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.”

—  Anton Chekhov

Ward No. 6, ch. 7 (1892)

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Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860–1904

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