A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton ChekhovHow unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Anton ChekhovThese people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
Anton ChekhovIn descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.
Anton ChekhovPharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.
Anton Chekhov