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Anton Chekhov

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Love, respect, friendship, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.


— Anton Chekhov


#friendship

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...


— Anton Chekhov


#life

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.


— Anton Chekhov


#respect

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.


— Anton Chekhov


#love #love

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.


— Anton Chekhov


#funny #inspiring #funny

This 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 Chekhov


#life

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.


— Anton Chekhov


#romance #life

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.


— Anton Chekhov


#life #death

Only one who loves can remember so well.


— Anton Chekhov


#memory #love

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)


— Anton Chekhov


#creative-process #state-of-mind #writing #writing-process






About Anton Chekhov

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Did you know about Anton Chekhov?

"It's nice to be a lord" he joked to his friend Ivan Leontyev (who wrote humorous pieces under the pseudonym Shcheglov) but he took his responsibilities as a landlord seriously and soon made himself useful to the local peasants. As well as organising relief for victims of the famine and cholera outbreaks of 1892 he went on to build three schools a fire station and a clinic and to donate his medical services to peasants for miles around despite frequent recurrences of his tuberculosis. Suvorin was to become a lifelong friend perhaps Chekhov's closest.

His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. "
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896 but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard.

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