Anton Chekhov Quotes - Page 7

• Mi propia experiencia es que, una vez escrita una historia, hay que tachar el principio y el final. Es ahí donde los autores mentimos más.

  Antón Chéjov

  Mentir, Escribir, Historias

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• I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.

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  Heart, Thinking, Tears

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• Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

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  Afterlife, Soul, Gauges

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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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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• If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

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  Wall, Writing, Rifles

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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.

  Antón Chéjov

  Death, Lying, Loss

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

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• What a delight it is to respect people!

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  Respect, People, Delight

  "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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  Artist, Brain, Sometimes

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• Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

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  Thinking, Wind, Tree

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• But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

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  Laughter, Reality, Years

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

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  Real, Mirages, Live By

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• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

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  Character, Russia, Government

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 17, 1890.

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• There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

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  Beautiful, Touching, Poetic

  "After the Theatre". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1892.

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• When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

  Antón Chéjov

  Pain, Mean, Modern Life

  'The Cherry Orchard' (1904) act 2

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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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• I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Would Be

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 9, 1890.

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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.

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  Wish, Desire, Want

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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.

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  Horse, Lying, Taken

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

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• Un árbol es hermoso, pero además tiene derecho a la vida; como el agua, el sol y las estrellas, es esencial. La vida en la Tierra es inconcebible sin los árboles.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Water

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

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• One must speak about serious things seriously.

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  Ideas, Serious Things, Serious

  Anton Chekhov's letter to A.N. Pleshcheev, September 9, 1888.

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• To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

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  Broken, Matter, Violin

  "Ward No. 6". Short stories by Anton Chekhov, 1892.

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• The air of one's native country is the most healthy air.

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  Country, Air, Healthy

  Letter to his brother, G.M. Chekhov, January 1895.

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• Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.

  Antón Chéjov

  Thinking, Maturity, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.1929, e-artnow

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• Man is what he believes.

  Antón Chéjov

  Inspirar, Motivar, Creer

  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.377, e-artnow

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• After us they'll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they'll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, "Oh! Life is so hard!" and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

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  Men, Air Balloons, Years

  "The Three Sisters". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1901.

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