Then I feel so happy and at the same time so sad, it's unimaginable. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up…It's going to blow… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don't attempt to justify myself. It's not my husband but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be!… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At home in Moscow everything was in its winter routine; the stoves were heated, and in the morning it was still dark… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I am drunk. I usually only drink like this once a month. At such times my audacity and temerity know no bounds.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was? — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to move and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share
