Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom--freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature,… — 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
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this… — 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
