Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“NINA Think of me sometimes. TRIGORIN I shall never forget you. I shall always remember you as I saw you that bright… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“I love him, love him. He's a millstone round my neck - he'll take me to the bottom with him. But I… — 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
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home. Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out… — 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
Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“When our eyes met in the compartment our spiritual fortitude deserted us both; I took her in my arms, she pressed her… — 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
A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to… — 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
“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
