When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.
Anton ChekhovCountry acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
Anton ChekhovOur pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
Anton ChekhovI've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
Anton ChekhovThe time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.
Anton Chekhov