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.
ANTON CHEKHOVPerhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople should be beautiful in every way – in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.
ANTON CHEKHOVEvery person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
ANTON CHEKHOVEven while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
ANTON CHEKHOVEverything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
ANTON CHEKHOVTo regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
ANTON CHEKHOVA good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn 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.
ANTON CHEKHOVOnly one who loves can remember so well.
ANTON CHEKHOVDon’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOV