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
People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.
In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.
All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart...
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
Everyone has the same God; only people differ.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.