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Anton Chekhov Quotes

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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
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get... Anton Chekhov
TRIGORIN Why do I hear a note of sadness that wrings my heart in this cry of a pure soul? If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for..."
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out. Anton Chekhov
In my opinion, it is not the writer’s job to solve such problems as the existence of God, pessimism, etc. The job of the artist is only to record who under which circumstances said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist must not judge his characters or their words; he must only be an impartial witness… It is high time for writers— and especially for true artists— to admit that it is impossible to explain anything… if an artist whom the crowd trusts admits that he understands... Anton Chekhov
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas about realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing about what intelligent people already know and about what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking nothing and making nothing out of it. And... Anton Chekhov
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov quote: "Only during hard times do people come to understand how..."
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. Anton Chekhov
In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger -- a stranger... A stranger, and lonely... Anton Chekhov
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 Anton Chekhov
There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work! Anton Chekhov

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