La Cerisaie (Вишнёвый сад), 1904
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Anton Tchekhov: Citations en anglais
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
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“I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.”
Letter to the Chekhov family (April 25, 1887)
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“Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.”
Мысль и красота, подобно урагану и волнам, не должны знать привычных, определенных форм.
A Letter (uncertain date, story not published by Chekhov)
Letter to K.S. Barantsevich (March 3, 1888)
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Alternate translation: We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.
Мы хлопочем, чтобы изменить жизнь, чтобы потомки были счастливы, а потомки скажут по обыкновению: прежде лучше было, теперешняя жизнь хуже прежней.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
Letter to his cousin, M.M. Chekhov (July 29, 1877)
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Letter to his sister Maria Pavlovna Chekhov (November 13, 1898)
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“Crutch is coming! Crutch! The old horseradish.”
Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 5, p. 206
Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov (September 24, 1888)
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 17, 1890)
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (August 18, 1893)
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (September 8, 1891)
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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (September 11, 1888)
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Episode from a Practice or A Doctor's Visit (1898)
Letter to I.I. Orlov (February 22, 1899)
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“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894)
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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 27, 1894)
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“It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.”
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
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Letter to K.S. Barantsevich (March 30, 1888)
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