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MASHA: Isn't there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it's snowing. What's the meaning of that?

MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?
– Anton Chekhov

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  17. And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life. – Anton Chekhov
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  38. If you zoom in far enough, the information is there but it contains no meaning. The meaning emerges as a collective principle of organization. – RADelmonico
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