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“I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.”

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.”

Letter to a Learned Neighbor (1880)

“The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappiness does not unite people, but separates them…”

Несчастные эгоистичны, злы, несправедливы, жестоки и менее, чем глупцы, способны понимать друг друга. Не соединяет, а разъединяет людей несчастье...
Enemies

“It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporeal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.”

A Journey to Sakhalin (1891)

“If you wish women to love you, be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter, and women fell in love with him.”

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.”

Act II
The Seagull (1896)

“I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.”

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
Letters

“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.”

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters

“Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.”

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 20, 1891)
Letters

“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”

Enemies (1887)

“We learn about life not from pluses alone, but from minuses as well.”

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 23, 1888)
Letters

“A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.”

Letter to A.N. Kanaev (March 26, 1883)
Letters

“Pesotsky had an immense house with columns and lions, off which the stucco was peeling, and with a footman in swallow-tails at the entrance. The old park, laid out in the English style, gloomy and severe, stretched for almost three-quarters of a mile to the river, and there ended in a steep, precipitous clay bank, where pines grew with bare roots that looked like shaggy paws; the water shone below with an unfriendly gleam, and the peewits flew up with a plaintive cry, and there one always felt that one must sit down and write a ballad.”

Anton Chekhov book The Black Monk

The Black Monk (1894)

“Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.”

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 27, 1889)
Letters

“Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.”

Innocuous Thoughts (1885)

“It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.”

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses—that is science.”

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.”

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.”

Ничто так не усыпляет и не опьяняет, как деньги; когда их много, то мир кажется лучше, чем он есть.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“There is no Monday which will not give its place to Tuesday.”

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)