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Anton Chekhov

Russian dramatist and author

1860–1904

32 quotes, most often on Writing, Beauty and Life & Death.

Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
Ivanov, Act III, sc. vi (1887)
- Character
A human being should be entirely beautiful: the face, the clothes, the mind, the thoughts.
Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by AstroffIn context
- Beauty
- Character
You’ve only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I think: “Oh Lord, you’ve given us huge forests, infinite fields, and endless horizons, and we, living here, ought really to be giants.”
The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act Two, spoken by LopakhinIn context
- Character
- Nature

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