Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904)
(Old Style: 17 January 1860 – 2 July 1904) was a major Russian short story writer and playwright.
Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.
When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.
People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another.
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.