8 qualities of educated people from Anton Chekhov

Russian classics more than 100 years ago, I wrote a letter to his brother, a talented artist, but infirmity and suffering from binge drinking. Anton Chekhov, knowing the weakness of his brother, and always worried about him upset due care attitude to his brother's gift. He left an emotional, frank letter that Website will certainly advise you to read and.





Moscow, 1886.

You have often complained to me that you "do not understand!". On this even Goethe and Newton did not complain ... You perfectly understand ... If you do not understand myself, it is not the fault of others ...

I assure you that, as a brother and a close man for you, I understand you and heartily sympathize with you ... all your good qualities, I know, like the five fingers, appreciate them and treat them with the deepest respect. I am, if you want to prove that I understand you, I can even list these qualities. I think you are kind to the rag, generous, not selfish, delishsya last penny, sincere; you're a stranger to envy and hatred, naive, sorry for people and animals, not Yechida, forgiving, trusting ... You have gifted over the fact that no other: you have talent. This talent places you above millions of people on earth for one artist alone account for 2 000 000 ...

Talent puts you in a special position: whether you're a toad or a tarantula, and it would then be respected, because the talent is forgiven everything. The disadvantage is you have only one. It is false and your soil, and your sorrow and your catarrh of the intestines. This is - your extreme bad manners. Excuse me, but veritas magis amicitiae ... The fact is that life has its own conditions ... To feel at ease in an intellectual environment not to be among her strange and I myself will not be burdened by it, to be known manner mannered ... Talent has brought you in this environment, you belong to it, but ... you pull on it, and you have to balance between the public and cultural tenants vis-a-vis. It affects flesh philistine, who grew up on the rod, at reynskovogo cellar on handouts. Win it difficult, terribly difficult.



Medias.rsVospitannye people, in my opinion, should meet the following conditions:

1) They respect human personality, and therefore always indulgent, soft, polite, compliant ... They did not rebel iz for hammer or missing gum; living with someone, they do not do this favor, and go, do not say you can not live! They forgive and noise, cold and overcooked meat, and sharpness, and the presence of outsiders in their housing ...

2) It is not compassionate to one only beggars and cats. They are sick and soul of what we do not see with the naked eye ...

3) They respect the property of others, and therefore pay debts.

< 4) They are afraid of lies and candid as a fire. Do not lie to them even in trifles. Lies offensive to the listener and debases the speaker in his eyes. They are not drawn, keep themselves in the street as well as at home, do not let dust into the eyes of smaller brothers ... They are not talkative and do not climb to the revelation, when they do not ask ... Out of respect they are more silent to foreign ears.

5) They do not despise yourself with the intent to cause the other sympathy and help. They do not play on the strings of other people's souls, so in response they sighed and nursed them. They do not say: I do not understand ..

6) They are not vain!. They do not take up such false brilliants as acquaintance with celebrities, delight in the oncoming Salon'e, a tavern known for ...

7) If they have the talent, they respect him. They sacrifice peace for him, women, wine, vanity ...

8) They bring the aesthetics. They can not sleep in clothes, see cracks on the wall with bedbugs, cheesy breathe air, walk on the spit upon the floor, eat of kerosene. They may try to tame and ennoble the sexual instinct ... [...] Raised same in this respect is not so kitchen. They need a woman is not a bed, not a horse sweat, [...] does not mind expressing itself in the ability to inflate a false pregnancy and lie without getting tired ... They, Especially artists need the freshness, grace, humanity [...] ... They do not crack resembling vodka, not sniffing cabinets, because they know that they are not pigs. Drink it alone, when available, on occasion ... Because they need a mens sana in corpore sano.

And so on. D. These are brought up ... to raise and not be lower than the medium level, which was not enough to read only Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust. It is not enough to sit for a cab and go to Yakimanka to a week to get away from there ...

There need continuous day and night work, eternal reading shtudirovka, will ... Here the roads every hour ... Travel to Yakimanka and back will not help. We must boldly spit and jerk sharply ... Come to us, break the decanter of vodka and go to read ... even Turgenev, whom you have not read ... ยป

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