{"author":"Anton Chekhov","author_id":"Anton+Chekhov","total_quotes":138,"quotes":[{"text":"Posterity will say as usual: 'In the past things were better  the present is worse than the past.'.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["past"],"id":1001,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["life","philosophy","idleness "],"id":2970,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["chekhov","inspirational","legacy","life","philosophical"],"id":3007,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"Men are made for happiness  and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: 'I am doing God's will on earth.'.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["happiness"],"id":3207,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["bias","destiny","dreams","happiness","illusions","life-goal","pushkin","truth"],"id":11407,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"She stood in awe of her elder daughter. Lida was never tender, she spoke only about serious things; she lived her own separate life and for her mother and sister was as sacred and slightly mysterious a personage as an admiral who always remains in his cabin is for his sailors.- The House with the Mezzanine.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["family"],"id":16269,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["possibility","sweet","thrill"],"id":19566,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["self-improvement"],"id":23734,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"When an actor has money  he doesn't send letters but telegrams.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["acting"],"id":31715,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["agony","depression","despair"],"id":33860,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":138,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}