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“When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 15, 1889)
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“How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.”

Anton Chekhov

Какое наслаждение уважать людей! Когда я вижу книги, мне нет дела до того, как авторы любили, играли в карты, я вижу только их изумительные дела.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Better to perish from fools than to accept praises from them.”

Anton Chekhov

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to I.L. Leontev (August 29, 1888)
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“Yes, that's how it is, child. He who works, he who is patient is the superior.”

Anton Chekhov book In the Ravine

Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 5, pp. 208

“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (January 14, 1887
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“In one-act pieces there should be only rubbish—that is their strength.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 6, 1889)
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“There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (February 6, 1898)
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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 Chekhov

Letter to L.A. Avilova (April 29, 1892)
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“By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. … I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 23, 1895)
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“Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”

Anton Chekhov

Alternate translation: Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.
Also quoted in Psychologically Speaking: A Book of Quotations, Kevin Connolly and Margaret Martlew, 1999, p. 96
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“All Russia is our orchard.”

Anton Chekhov

Act II
The Cherry Orchard (1904)

“Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 4, 1889)
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“"Why do I love him so much, mamma? Why do I feel so sorry for him?" she went on in a quivering voice, and her eyes glistened with tears. "Who is he? What is he like? As light as a little feather, as a little crumb, but I love him; I love him like a real person. Here he can do nothing, he can't talk, and yet I know what he wants with his little eyes."”

Anton Chekhov book In the Ravine

Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 6, pp. 216

“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”

Anton Chekhov

Ionych (1898)