You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still… — 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
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . .… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“In the past when I was younger my friends and relations had known what to do with me: some of them used… — 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
