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Anton Chekhov Quotes

Anton Chekhov quotes

Russian Playwright January 29, 1860 – July 14, 1904

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Anton Chekhov quote: "And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love..."
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are..."
To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead... Anton Chekhov
My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a..."
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov
...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "If you want to work on your art, work on your life."
If you want to work on your art, work on your life. Anton Chekhov
When, on a moonlit night, you see a wide village street with its peasant houses, haystacks, sleeping willows, tranquility enters the soul; in this calm, wrapped in the shade of night, free from struggle, anxiety and passion, everything is gentle, wistful, beautiful, and it seems that the stars are watching over it tenderly and with love, and that this is taking place somewhere unearthly, and that all is well. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have..."
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' Anton Chekhov
He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same. Anton Chekhov
I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. Anton Chekhov
After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die. Anton Chekhov
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov
Terenty comes to them, makes the sign of the cross over them, and puts bread under their heads. And no one sees his love. It is seen only by the moon which floats in the sky and peeps caressingly through the holes in the wall of the deserted barn."from "A Day in the Country Anton Chekhov
. . . who loved without any genuine feeling, with superfluous phrases, affectedly, hysterically, with an expression that suggested that it was not love nor passion, but something more significant; . . . Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in..."
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. Anton Chekhov

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