Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth29 January 1860
CityTaganrog, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
To advise is not to compel.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.
It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.