35 brilliant and short quotes Chekhov

One friend remembers a case of Chekhov:
- Once we got to talking about the "Steppe". Somehow I remembered at the beginning of the phrase, which I stopped reading the first story: "She was alive until she died ..." Something like that.

- It can not be! - Chekhov said, and immediately took a book from the shelf and found the place: "Before her death, she was alive and had a soft pretzels from the market", - Chekhov laughed. - Indeed, as I do not doglyadel. And yet, today's audiences are not even eating fruit. Let him!
That phrase has remained in the story.

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It's not a question of pessimism or optimism, but the fact that ninety-nine out of a hundred have no sense. If you changed the wife, then rejoice that it has changed you, not the fatherland. When your finger gets a splinter, rejoice: "Well, that is not in the eye!»

Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy, 12 September 1901 .

All know and understand everything only fools and charlatans. The one who is alien to the life of one who is incapable of it, that nothing more is becoming an officer. One reduces the pain is always different. You will come to the cat's tail, which has a toothache, and it will become easier. If against some disease is invited to a lot of money, it means that the disease is incurable.

Chekhov and Olga Knipper and his wife.

"Cynic" - a Greek word, translated into your language is meaningful: a pig that wants to the whole world knew that she pig. These clever all so stupid that no one with whom to talk. If all the people and conspired suddenly became sincere, everything would have gone to the devil. On the ground, there is nothing good that his primary source would not have shit. Life, in fact, a very simple thing and a person needs to work hard to spoil it. Site Materials Collected Works of Anton Chekhov in twelve volumes.
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