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Anton Chekhov Quotes

An enormously vast field lies between God exists and there is no God. The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little Picture Quote #1

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? the peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? the peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? the peasant Picture Quote #1

There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon Picture Quote #1

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork Picture Quote #1

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers Picture Quote #1

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy Picture Quote #1

The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings Picture Quote #1

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I’ll tell you who you are Picture Quote #1

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves Picture Quote #1

The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields Picture Quote #1

To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man! Picture Quote #1

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy Picture Quote #1

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves Picture Quote #1

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity Picture Quote #1

When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ‘You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.’ Picture Quote #1

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A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend Picture Quote #1

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience Picture Quote #1

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It’s still better than nothing Picture Quote #1

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it Picture Quote #1

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn’t marry the right person Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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An enormously vast field lies between God exists and there is no God. The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? the peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? the peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? the peasant (Anton Chekhov Quotes) There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon (Anton Chekhov Quotes) People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people (Anton Chekhov Quotes) 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 (Anton Chekhov Quotes) 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 (Anton Chekhov Quotes) It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers (Anton Chekhov Quotes) The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to (Anton Chekhov Quotes) 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 (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy (Anton Chekhov Quotes) The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I’ll tell you who you are (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves (Anton Chekhov Quotes) The people I am afraid of are the ones who look for tendentiousness between the lines and are determined to see me as either liberal or conservative. I am neither liberal, nor conservative, nor gradualist, nor monk, nor indifferentist. I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one (Anton Chekhov Quotes) 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 Quotes) While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave (Anton Chekhov Quotes) 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 Quotes) Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields (Anton Chekhov Quotes) To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man! (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy (Anton Chekhov Quotes) People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves. (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. (Anton Chekhov Quotes) When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say, ‘You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.’ (Anton Chekhov Quotes) A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience. (Anton Chekhov Quotes) ..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It’s still better than nothing. (Anton Chekhov Quotes) Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it (Anton Chekhov Quotes) It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn’t marry the right person. (Anton Chekhov Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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