![Anton Chekhov’s death scene set in a German spa was later described by his wife, the actress Olga Knipper:
“After announcing that he was dying, [Anton] drank a full glass of champagne, lay on his left side, and stopped breathing. In the silence, a large moth fluttered its wings against the light bulbs, and then the stillness was broken by the cork exploding from the champagne bottle.”
—from the 2000 desk diary On Writers & Writing by Helen Sheehy & Leslie Stainton](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5326mBph31qe0r71o1_500.jpg)
Anton Chekhov’s death scene set in a German spa was later described by his wife, the actress Olga Knipper:
“After announcing that he was dying, [Anton] drank a full glass of champagne, lay on his left side, and stopped breathing. In the silence, a large moth fluttered its wings against the light bulbs, and then the stillness was broken by the cork exploding from the champagne bottle.”
—from the 2000 desk diary On Writers & Writing by Helen Sheehy & Leslie Stainton
“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”
—Anton Chekhov
You ask “What is life?” That is the same as asking “What is a carrot?” A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
—Anton Chekhov, letter to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov (April 20, 1904)
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“To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead …”
—Anton Chekhov
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.
—Anton Chekhov (via elina-astra)
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