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 a person does not smoke or drink, necessarily will reflect, I do not bitch he? To go with his wife to Paris would be like to go to Tula with his samovar. There are people who always say only smart and good words, but feel that they are stupid people. If you changed the wife, then rejoice that it has changed you, not the fatherland. The University is developing all the skills, including - stupidity. They say, in the end the truth will prevail, but it is not true. Health and normally only mediocre, gregarious people. To feel the happiness without a break, even in moments of grief and sorrow, you must: a) be able to be satisfied with the present, and b) to enjoy the knowledge that it could have been worse. When your finger gets a splinter, rejoice: "Well, that is not in the eye!» A very good man face such that it is taken for a detective; I think he stole cufflinks. A wonderful day today. Whether tea to drink, or to hang himself.

Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy, 12 September 1901 em>.

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. You can not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one has in mind to shoot out of it. Hundreds of miles of desolate, monotonous, burnt steppe can not induce such deep depression as one man when he sits, and says it is not known when he will leave. If you want you to have a little time - to do nothing. It should be a drop squeezed from a slave. No one wants to love us in the common man. If against some disease is invited to a lot of money, it means that the disease is incurable. Do not stop people from going crazy.

Chekhov and Olga Knipper and his wife. em>

"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. The talented people in Russia can not be neat. If your act upset someone, it does not mean that he Duren. Becoming a writer is very easy. None of the monster, which would not have found himself a pair and do not have the stuff that would not find himself a suitable reader. You can not demand from the dirt that it was not mud. "Know thyself" - beautiful and useful advice; The only pity is that the ancients did not guess specify how to use these tips. Away from the people - it's suicide. On the ground, there is nothing good that his primary source would not have shit. ... for the post office has long been the reputation of the institution where the scary happen. In pain I say cry and tears, meanness - indignation at filth - disgust. In my opinion, it is, in fact, is called life. 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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