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
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. — 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
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an… — 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
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
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense.... — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll… — 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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