Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Anton ChekhovTag: wisdom books education learning anton-chekhov
I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.
Anton ChekhovTag: anton-chekhov
As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial.
Anton ChekhovTag: enemies short-story anton-chekhov
In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the inevitable winter. Wherever one looked, on all sides, nature seemed like a dark, infinitely deep, cold pit from which neither Kirilov nor Abogin nor the red half-moon could escape....
Anton ChekhovTag: enemies short-story anton-chekhov
Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it.
Anton ChekhovTag: short-stories anton-chekhov love-and-other-stories
Every science has a beginning but no end.
Anton ChekhovTag: short-stories anton-chekhov love-and-other-stories
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other. Though it is irregular, it is less boring this way, and besides, neither of them loses anything through my infidelity.
Anton ChekhovTag: literature medicine wife playwright infidelity doctor mistress anton-chekhov irregular less-boring
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