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“A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.”

Quote by Anton Chekhov

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Anton Chekhov, born on January 29, 1860, was a prominent Russian physician and short story writer. His works are renowned for their profound psychological insights and critical portrayal of social realities. Chekhov's short stories have had a profound impact on literature both in Russia and around the world. more

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“How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.”

People Happiness Work Out Frustration Unbearable Happy People Things Work Out Everything Works Out

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.”

Men Should Reason Individual Civilization Privacy Civilized Anxious Personal Life Secrecy Personal Privacy

Book:Five plays

Source: Five plays

“An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.”

Years Felt Honest Talent Sorry Dinner Actresses Forty Sensible Forty Years Old

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.”

Knows Has Beens Sometimes Play Able Five Minutes Arms Theatre Settling Curtains Five Minutes Playwright

Book:The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

Source: The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

“I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.”

Thinking Way Funny Happened Patterns My Way Essays Funny Things Finnegans Wake

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“Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.”

Lying Liars Alcoholism Deathbed

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.”

Art Age Form Youth Cold Injustice Old Age Indifference Apathy Decline Depravity Premature Perversion Miscarriage Degeneration Grumbling Indifference And Apathy

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it must have sounded when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it sounds now, and it will sound as indifferently and monotonously when we are all no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.”

Earth Lying Sound Sleep Progress Tree Sea Movement Eternal Perfection Salvation Indifference Rising Life And Death Spokes Hollow Pledge Monotonous Constancy Rising Up Grasshoppers

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Only entropy comes easy.”

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Author:Anton Chekhov

“Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.”

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