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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Anton Chekhov
Heart, Night, Keys
Anton Chekhov (2003). “Chekhov: The Essential Plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters & The Cherry Orchard”, p.189, Modern Library

The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

Anton Chekhov
Spring, Heart, Snow

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

Anton Chekhov
Integrity, Heart, Laughing
Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, October 9, 1888.

I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

Anton Chekhov
Heart, Thinking, Tears

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

Anton Chekhov
Heart, Thinking, Scary
"In the Cart". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

Anton Chekhov
Pain, Love You, Heart
Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2866, Delphi Classics

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

Anton Chekhov
Grief, Heart, Giving
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”

We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses are womanizers and cynics at heart. Gynecologists deal with savage prose the likes of which you have never dreamed of.

Anton Chekhov
Dog, Women, Heart
Letter to E.M. Shavrova, September 16, 1891.

I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.

Anton Chekhov
Heart, Thinking, Tears
Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.309, Vintage

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