Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 13

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• Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, Men, Complaining

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• You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Taken, Thinking, Men

  "About Love and Other Stories". Book by Anton Chekhov (p. 4), June 10, 2004.

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• Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Money, World, Better Place

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

  Anton Chekhov

  Marriage, Fear, Loneliness

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• I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.

  Anton Chekhov

  Time, Long, Drunk

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• We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Pain, Usual

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Writing, Men

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• I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Religious, Philosophical

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.11, Modern Library

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• He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Freedom, Autumn

  "Gooseberries". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Time, Artist, Justice

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

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• I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Ocean, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.11, Vintage

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• If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Wall, Gun

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• 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.

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• The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.

  Anton Chekhov

  Change, Blow, Men

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• Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

  Anton Chekhov

  Philosophy, Doe, Useless

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• Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pride, Self, Development

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• A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

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  Beautiful, Stars, Future

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

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• My holy of holies is the human body.

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  Body, Holy, Pharisaism

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.13, Modern Library

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• A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

  Anton Chekhov

  Cosmetics, Dealer, Entertainers

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• Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

  Anton Chekhov

  Summer, Country, Winter

  "Lady N - 's Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

  Anton Chekhov

  Jealous, Pigeons

  Letter to I.L. Leontev, February 4, 1888.

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• If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Work, People

  "The Princess". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

  Anton Chekhov

  Catholic, Merit, Virtue

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, November 18, 1891.

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• There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

  Anton Chekhov

  Circumstances, Confluence, Reproach

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

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• There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Men, Doors

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