Anton Chekhov

Naissance 29 January 1860 · Décès 15 July 1904

Originaire de Taganrog, Don Soviet Republic, Russia · Nationalité : Russian Empire · Écrit des essais et documents

Citations

“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”
Act IEn anglais
“Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”
A Brief Human Anatomy 1883En anglais
“Good breeding doesn’t mean that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice when someone else does.”
The House with the Mezzanine 1896En anglais
“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”
Ward No. 6En anglais
“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
Мысль и красота, подобно урагану и волнам, не должны знать привычных, определеннEn anglais

Les livres de Anton Chekhov dans l'ordre

Les livres de Anton Chekhov dans l'ordre de parution, de Oncle Vania (1897) à Les trois soeurs (1901).