"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
"The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it."
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Source: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”
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