The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you want to work on your art, work on your life.
ANTON CHEKHOVHe who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
ANTON CHEKHOVIt is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.
ANTON CHEKHOVI kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
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 CHEKHOVWhen 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.
ANTON CHEKHOVLet 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 CHEKHOVBetter a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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 CHEKHOVMan will become better when you show him what he is like.
ANTON CHEKHOVWhat a delight it is to respect people!
ANTON CHEKHOVIf in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
ANTON CHEKHOVCalculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOV