Anton Chekhov Quotes

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Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

Anton Chekhov
Science is the most important, the most magnificent, and the most necessary element of life.

Anton Chekhov
I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Anton Chekhov
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long...That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

Anton Chekhov
My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

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.

Anton Chekhov
Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Anton Chekhov
What did your uncle die of? Instead of fifteen Butkin drops, as the doctor prescribed, he took sixteen.

Anton Chekhov
A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

Anton Chekhov