“There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don’t be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“To dine, drink champagne, raise a racket and make speeches about the people’s consciousness, the people’s conscience, freedom and so forth while servants in tails are scurrying around your table, just like serfs, and out in the severe cold on the street await coachmen–this is the same as lying to the holy spirit.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don’t just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Comfort and convenience possess a magical power; little by little they suck in even people with strong wills.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“There are no lower or higher or median moralities. There is only one morality, and it is precisely the one that was given to us during the time of Jesus Christ and that stops me, you and Barantsevich from stealing, offending others, lying etc.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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“It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.”
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
