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Anton Chekhov

Read through the most famous quotes from Anton Chekhov




The more refined one is, the more unhappy.


— Anton Chekhov


#refined #unhappy

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.


— Anton Chekhov


#happy #how #out #people #times

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.


— Anton Chekhov


#become #becomes #complex #heart #human

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.


— Anton Chekhov


#direction #fail #forward #go #make

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.


— Anton Chekhov


#believe #impossible #life #must #people

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.


— Anton Chekhov


#difference #doctors #just #kill #lawyers

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.


— Anton Chekhov


#drink #entire #faith #finish #glass

There is nothing new in art except talent.


— Anton Chekhov


#except #new #nothing #nothing new #talent

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.


— Anton Chekhov


#democracy #essence #very

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.


— Anton Chekhov


#born #fact #faith #in fact #must






About Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov Quotes




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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