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“Lopakhine : Excusez-moi, mais des gens aussi légers que vous, Mesdames et Messieurs, aussi peu doués pour les affaires, aussi étranges, je n'en ai jamais rencontré.
On vous dit clairement que votre propriété sera vendue, et c'est comme si vous ne compreniez pas.”

Anton Tchekhov La Cerisaie

La Cerisaie (Вишнёвый сад), 1904

Anton Tchekhov: Citations en anglais

“Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever…. Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.”

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Act I
Uncle Vanya (1897)

“The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.”

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Act I
Uncle Vanya (1897)

“To regard one’s immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.”

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Ward No. 6, ch. 7 (1892)

“Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”

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The Story of Mme. NN or Lady N—'s Story or A Lady's Story (1887)

“Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.”

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Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (October 9, 1888)
Letters

“Life is difficult for those who have the daring to first set out on an unknown road. The avant-garde always has a bad time of it.”

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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 14, 1889)
Letters

“"Why did you marry me into this family, mother?" said Lipa.
"One has to be married, daughter. It was not us who ordained it."”

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Anton Chekhov livre In the Ravine

Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 5, pp. 212

“Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.”

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Letter to N.M. Lintvareva (February 11, 1889)
Letters

“And I thought that were we now to obtain political liberty, of which we talk so much, while engaged in biting one another, we should not know what to do with it, we should waste it in accusing one another in the newspapers of being spies and money-grubbers, we should frighten society with the assurance that we have neither men, nor science, nor literature, nothing! Nothing!”

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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”

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Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (September 29, 1886)
Letters

“Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.”

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Anton Chekhov livre Gooseberries

Gooseberries (1898)

“One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.”

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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 29, 1890)
Letters

“The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.”

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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (November 25, 1892)
Letters

“You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!”

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The Bear or The Boor, sc. viii (1888)

“There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”

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Letter to M.V. Kiseleva (January 14, 1887)
Letters

“I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, then let it be tobacco.”

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On the Harmfulness of Tobacco (1886)

“How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything.”

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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.”

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Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (October 25, 1888)
Letters

“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”

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Letter to S.P. Kuvshinnikova (December 25, 1888)
Letters

“One must speak about serious things seriously.”

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Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (September 9, 1888)
Letters

“Eyes—the head’s chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.”

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A Brief Human Anatomy (1883)

“At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people.”

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Anton Chekhov livre Gooseberries

Gooseberries (1898)

“Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.”

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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”

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Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov (May 10, 1886)
Original: Одиночество в творчестве тяжелая штука. Лучше плохая критика, чем ничего…

“As I shall lie in the grave alone, so in fact I live alone.”

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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.”

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In the Cart or A Journey by Cart or The Schoolmistress (1897)

“I can’t accept “our nervous age,” since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”

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Letter to E.M. Savrova-Yust (February 28, 1895)
Letters

“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.”

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Ariadne (1895)

“It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others’ expense.”

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Anton Chekhov livre My Life

My Life (1896)

“When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.”

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Letter to Maxim Gorky (January 3, 1899)
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