Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 4

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• There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.

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  Disappointment, Path, Stills

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• Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Clothes, Soul, Excellence

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• When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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  Mourning, Black, Said

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• The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Silence, Unhappy

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• People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

  Anton Chekhov

  Destiny, People, Unhappy

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• Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Hypocrite, Eagles

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• The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Knowledge, Inner Peace

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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.

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Stars, Water

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

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• My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.

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• This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.

  Anton Chekhov

  Flower, Life Is Like, Blooming

  Anton Chekhov (2006). “The Major Plays”, p.28, Penguin

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• An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.

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  Sorry, Years, Dinner

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• The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

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  Funny, Horse, Stupidity

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• I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

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  Religious, Men, Educated

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• It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

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  Writing, Thinking, Soul

  "The Seagull". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1896.

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• You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

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  Life, Asking, Carrots

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• There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue.

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  Vapid, Mediocrity, Useless

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

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• A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

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  Dog, Guilt, Good Person

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• The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Problem

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• A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Opinion, Drink

  Letter to N.A. Leikin, May 8, 1895.

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• He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

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  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

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• I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.

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  Horse, Ballet, Ballerina

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• Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

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  Hero, Mind, Action

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• Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

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  Philosophical, Tea, Conversation

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• When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

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  Real, Glasses, Drunk

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• Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.

  Anton Chekhov

  Art, Writing, Men

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