While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and… — 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
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When a man fails to understand something he is conscious of a discord, and seeks for the cause of it not in… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person. — 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
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