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Anton Chekhov1860–1904

To my dying day I shall hear people say: “Clever and pretty; clever and pretty,” and nothing more; and when I am gone, those that knew me will say as they pass my grave: “Here lies Trigorin, a clever writer, but he was not as good as Turgenieff.”

Anton Chekhov on fame

The Seagull (1896), Act II, spoken by Trigorin

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