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
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.
Women can't forgive failure.
When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul -- it's nothing but a common crocodile.
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.