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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 Chekhov

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

“Everyone has the same God; only people differ.”

Anton Chekhov book The Duel

The Duel (1891)

“Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.”

Anton Chekhov

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to his brother, M.P. Chekhov (April 1879)
Original: Ничтожество свое сознавай, знаешь где? Перед богом, пожалуй, пред умом, красотой, природой, но не пред людьми. Среди людей нужно сознавать свое достоинство.

“It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.”

Anton Chekhov book Gooseberries

Gooseberries (1898)

“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”

Anton Chekhov

Act I
The Three Sisters (1901)

“Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to P.A. Sergeenko (March 6, 1889)
Original: Лермонтов умер 28 лет, а написал больше, чем оба мы с тобой вместе. Талант познается не только по качеству, но и по количеству им сделанного

“Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.”

Anton Chekhov book Peasants

Peasants (1897)

“It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.”

Anton Chekhov book On the Road

On the Road

“What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.”

Anton Chekhov

Act I
The Three Sisters (1901)

“It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to I.P. Chekhov (October 2, 1897)
Letters

“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”

Anton Chekhov book After the Theatre

After the Theatre (1892)

“When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 7, 1889)
Letters

“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 Chekhov

Act IV
The Seagull (1896)

“Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.”

Anton Chekhov book Three Years

Three Years (1895)

“The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.”

Anton Chekhov

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness…. The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself…. This is what I think about Russian suicides.”

Anton Chekhov

Letter to D.V. Grigorovich (February 5, 1888)
Letters

“Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.”

Anton Chekhov

Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RLrfgZwfeeUC&q=%22Great+Jove+angry+is+no+longer+Jove%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage <br class="br">The Seagull (1896)

“The more refined the more unhappy.”

Anton Chekhov

Alernate translation: The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
Чем культурнее, тем несчастнее.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.”

Anton Chekhov

Alternate translation: Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Тогда человек станет лучше, когда вы покажете ему, каков он есть…
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)