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
Women can't forgive failure.
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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.
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
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.
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.