Anton Chekhov Quotes
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
Chekhov, Anton. "The Story of an Unknown Man." The Chorus Girl and Other Stories, translated by Constance Garnett, Macmillan, 1920, p. 219.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."