Anton Chekhov

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.

Anton Chekhov

I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.

Anton Chekhov

I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.

Anton Chekhov

I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.

Anton Chekhov

I must run away, I must escape this very day or I shall go out of my mind.

Anton Chekhov

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

Anton Chekhov

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Anton Chekhov

I should think I’m going to be a perpetual student.

Anton Chekhov

I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

Anton Chekhov

I’ve never been in love. I’ve dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Anton Chekhov