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
It's been a long time since I've had champagne.
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has neither.
What a delight it is to respect people!
Only entropy comes easy.
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.
Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.