“His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Experience often repeated, truly bitter experience, had taught him long ago that with decent people, especially Moscow people -- always slow to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“To live the same family life as his father and forefathers—that is, in the same condition of culture—and to bring up his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if 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
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life’s impossible; and that I can’t know, and so I can’t live,"… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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
“If you could only see your face, your gestures! Oh, how tedious your life must be.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“As he was speaking, he kept reminding himself that he was going to a rendezvous and that not a living soul knew… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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
It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“SONIA: What can we do? We must live our lives. [A pause] Yes, we shall live, Uncle Vanya. We shall live through… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“A doctrine which advocates indifference to wealth and to the comforts of life, and a contempt for suffering and death [the Stoics']… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...” — 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
“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
