La Cerisaie (Вишнёвый сад), 1904
Anton Tchekhov Citations
Anton Tchekhov: Citations en anglais
and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.
Act II
The Three Sisters (1901)
A Dreary Story or A Tedious Story (1889)
Difficult People https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/chekhov/anton/c51wif/chapter2.html (1886)
“Grigory Petrovitch, let us weep, let us weep with joy!”
he said in a thin voice, and then at once burst out laughing in a loud bass guffaw. "Ho-ho-ho! This is a fine daughter-in-law for you too! Everything is in its place in her; all runs smoothly, no creaking, the mechanism works well, lots of screws in it."
Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 3, pp. 193-4
Скажи, пожалюста, душя моя, когда я буду жить по-человечески, т. е. работать и не нуждаться? Теперь я и работаю, и нуждаюсь, и порчу свою репутацию необходимостью работать херовое.
Letter to the Alexander Chekhov (April 14, 1887)
Letters
“I should think that for one who has tasted the joys of creation, no other pleasure could exist.”
Anna to Trigorin, Act I
The Seagull (1896)
Original: (ru) Но, я думаю, кто испытал наслаждение творчества, для того уже все другие наслаждения не существуют.
“Brevity is the sister of talent.”
Краткость — сестра таланта.
Letter to Alexander P. Chekhov (April 11, 1889)
Letters