Anton Chekhov

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means tat the disease is incurable.

Man is what he believes.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.