All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart... — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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 Image