If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOVIf you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
ANTON CHEKHOVMan is what he believes.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
ANTON CHEKHOVIn short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because–I don’t know why.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
ANTON CHEKHOVWe learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
ANTON CHEKHOVMy holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.
ANTON CHEKHOVLove, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.
ANTON CHEKHOVWithout a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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 problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
ANTON CHEKHOVI can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious.
ANTON CHEKHOVThe unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them.
ANTON CHEKHOVCalculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou ask me what life is. That’s like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there’s nothing more to know.
ANTON CHEKHOVAn artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
ANTON CHEKHOV