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Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 15

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It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when

It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

People, Awkward, Needs

"A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not hiding from people but from our vanity, which in town among people is unjust and active beyond measure.

Country, Pride, Cities

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

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Hypocrisy, States, Psychopathic

Letter to I.L. Leontev, August 29, 1888.

Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

People, Toads, Tarantulas

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Letters, Diary, Reminiscences and Biography: Assorted Collection of Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned Russian Author and Playwright of Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull”, p.44, e-artnow

I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

Running, Book, Writing

Letter to N. M. Ezhov, March 22, 1893.

Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty.

Lucky, Caviar, Olives

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “Selected Letters”

The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.

Ideas, Numbers, Understanding

Letter to A. S. Suvorin, October 12, 1892.

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

Soul, Ordinary, Looks

"The Boor" by Anton Chekhov, sc. viii, 1888.

Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

Children, Angel, Firsts

Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, January 2, 1889.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Illness, Cures, Remedy

we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

Two, Judging, First Impression

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions.

Writing, Play, Judging

Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

Beautiful, Sports, Class

Letter to A. S. Suvorin, March 16, 1895.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Life, Science, Vegetarianism

"The wonder of Chekhov" by James Lasdun, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

Love, Lying, Men

"Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

Progress, Way, Youth

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

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

Past, Events, Unbroken

Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2506, Delphi Classics

Once you've married, be strict but just with your wife, don't allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: "Don't forget that I made you happy.

Wife, Married, Forget

"Guide for Those Wishing to Marry". Story by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

Work, Artist, Two

Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here.

Girl, Men, Lakes

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

Love, Mistake, Men

Anton Chekhov (2015). “The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…”, p.3220, e-artnow

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1988). “A doctor's visit: short stories”, Bantam Classics

Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back in the arms of the playwright. Instinctively we know that the playwright knows his business.

Play, Theatre, Arms

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1955). “The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov”

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past.

Past, Usual, Posterity

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

Writing, Long, Mind

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