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Anton Chekhov

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Anton Chekhov

Birthname

Birthday: January 29, 1860

Death: July 15, 1904

Educated At: Chekhov Gymnasium, Moscow State University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Russian Empire

Occupations: Journalist, Playwright, Author, Dramaturge

Spouse: Olga Knipper

Total quotes: 1

“In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life.”

— Anton Chekhov, Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

Tagged: what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature

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