Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 14

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• My holy of holies is the human body.

  Anton Chekhov

  Body, Holy, Pharisaism

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

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• Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Essence, Democracy, Transcendentalism

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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.

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  Summer, Country, Winter

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

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

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  Happiness, Men, Doors

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• It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

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  Book, Wife, Cigar

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• I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything, through my infidelity.

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  Tired, Night, Two

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

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

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  Circumstances, Confluence, Reproach

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

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• And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.

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  Wise, Book, Blessing

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.2020, Delphi Classics

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• The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

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  Sea, Pity

  "Gusev". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1890.

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• Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

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  Eye, Police, Watches

  "A Brief Human Anatomy". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1883.

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• I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love.

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  Love, Writing, Lakes

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• In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

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  Writing, Eye, Details

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

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  Expression, People, Perfect

  Anton Chekhov's letter to E.M. Shavrova, April 6, 1892.

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• In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

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  Suicide, Men, Thinking

  Letter to D. V. Grigorovich, February 5, 1888.

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• Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

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  Lying, Years, People

  "Rothschild's Violin". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1894.

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• To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!

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  God, Faith, Believe

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• A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

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  Honesty, Giving, Justice

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• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

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  Powerful, Philosophy, Grief

  "A Dreadful Night". Short story by Anton Chekhov, November 3, 1886.

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• Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.

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  Art, Impossible, Stage

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1973). “Letters of Anton Chekhov”, Viking Adult

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• Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

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  Writing, Artist, Two

  "Comfort reading: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals.

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  Air, Play, Moral

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• I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

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  Stupid, Mistake, Age

  Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

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• When a person hasn't in him that which is higher and stronger than all external influences, it is enough for him to catch a good cold in order to lose his equilibrium and begin to see an owl in every bird, to hear a dog's bark in every sound.

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  Dog, Order, Bird

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

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  Creativity, Men, Animal

  "Uncle Vanya". Act I. Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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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 they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

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  People, Awkward, Needs

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

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