Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Its even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosophers stone.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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 Pavlovich Chekhov
To regard ones immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov