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You ask “What is life?” That is the same as asking “What is a carrot?” A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more. - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Attribution: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, April 20, 1904, to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 12, p. 93, “Nauka” (1983). Written two months before his death.

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