Anton Chekhov Quotes about Suffering

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It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

Anton Chekhov

Punishment, Champion, Suffering

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

Anton Chekhov

Russia, Suffering, Poverty

"Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

Anton Chekhov

Suffering, Purpose, Mystery

Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.678, Delphi Classics