The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
ANTON CHEKHOVExquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him.
ANTON CHEKHOVBe sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
ANTON CHEKHOVJust as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
ANTON CHEKHOVI don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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 CHEKHOVIf you ever have need of my life, come and take it.
ANTON CHEKHOVI have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
ANTON CHEKHOVWrite, write, write-till your fingers break.
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 CHEKHOVThe government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
ANTON CHEKHOVThis life of ours, human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up–no more flower.
ANTON CHEKHOVPeople are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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