Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 6

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• Only one who loves can remember so well.

  Anton Chekhov

  Remember, Wells

  Anton Chekhov (2009). “Selected Stories of Anton Chekov”, p.61, Modern Library

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• Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Avant Garde, Firsts, Life Is

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 14, 1889.

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• It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

  Anton Chekhov

  Rich, Poor, Easier

  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.329, e-artnow

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• Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

  Anton Chekhov

  Self, Selfishness, Annihilation

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• Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Ducks

  "Difficult People". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

  Anton Chekhov

  Husband, Moon, Sky

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

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• If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wife, Betrayed, Teeth

  "Life is Wonderful" by Anton Chekhov, 1885.

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• The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  World, Existentialism, Metaphysics

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• Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Blank Slates, Insight

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Aptitude, Facts, Spirit

  "On the Road". Book by Anton Chekhov, December 25, 1886.

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• There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Heart, Laughing

  Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, October 9, 1888.

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• How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Frustration, People

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• The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Thinking, Greed

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

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• ..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

  Anton Chekhov

  Real, Mirages, Live By

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• In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hero, Character, Two

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• If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Needs, Most Romantic, Ifs

  Anton Chekhov, Milton Ehre (1992). “Chekhov for the Stage: The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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• In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal.

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  Two, Creating, People

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• Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

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  People, Enough, Working It

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• Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Ideas, Done

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “Five Great Short Stories”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

  Anton Chekhov

  Literature, Incapability, University

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• He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.

  Anton Chekhov

  Aliens, Affair, Should

  Letter to A. N. Pleshcheev, October 25, 1888.

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• If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

  Anton Chekhov

  Cry, Failing, Ifs

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• [In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

  Anton Chekhov

  Death, Lying, Loss

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1929). “The Works of Anton Chekhov”

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• Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

  Anton Chekhov

  Hurricanes, Wave, Form

  "The Letter". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Lying, Taken

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

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