“ No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. 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. Anton Chekhov
“ Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other Anton Chekhov
“ Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. Anton Chekhov
“ For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. Anton Chekhov
“ Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better the present is worse than the past." Anton Chekhov
“ Little girls ought to be taught and brought up with boys, so that they might be always together. A woman ought to be trained so that she may be able, like a man, to recognise when she's wrong, or she… Anton Chekhov
“ My own experience is that once a story has been written one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything… Anton Chekhov
“ ...a writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. Anton Chekhov
“ If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting, it's only they who are wanted. The more of such people there are, the sooner the Kingdom of God wil… Anton Chekhov
“ To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God. Anton Chekhov
“ In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist… Anton Chekhov
