Author of quotes: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Page 2



Roads and cities are worse than the worst, but there is plenty of fiction.
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From toothache and love, a stray bullet fired into the temple helps. Such a bullet gives a certain impression.
Quote Explanation: 1887 July
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The sea is wonderful, blue and gentle, like the hair of an innocent girl. You can live on its shore for 1000 years and not get bored.
Quote Explanation: Letter to I. L. Leontiev (Shcheglov), July 18, 1888. Theodosius.
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Life is no joke! Life bites...
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My life is boring; tired of working because of lines and patches, and old age is coming closer and closer ...
Quote Explanation: 1891 July 24
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Your husband Antonio.
Quote Explanation: Anton Chekhov, from a letter to Olga Knipper, 1901
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Only the sea smiles, which does not care about small towns and tourists.
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It is necessary that the strong do not enslave the weak, that the minority should not be a parasite or a pump for the majority, sucking the best juices out of it chronically, that is, it is necessary that everyone, without exception, both strong and weak, rich and poor, equally participate in the struggle for existence, every man for himself, and in this respect there is no better leveling means than physical labor as a common compulsory duty for all.
№ 455012   Added MegaMozg 15-07-2023 / 14:39
In order to change your life as abruptly and drastically as you did, you had to go through a complex mental process, and in order to continue this life now and constantly be at the height of your convictions, you must work hard day after day with your mind and heart.
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Worse, more like a pig, as Muscovites live in the summer, you can not live.
Quote Explanation: 1899 July 8
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But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Proceeding from that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. "Nevertheless" and "To the extent that" the officials composed. I read and spit. Young people write especially badly. It is unclear, cold and inelegant; writes, son of a bitch, as if cold in a coffin.
Quote Explanation: From a letter to A.S. Suvorin dated August 24, 1893
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What the weather is like in Moscow, I don’t know how to say, because, like a schemamonk, I sit within four walls and do not show my nose to the street.
Quote Explanation: Anton Chekhov, from a letter to N. Leikin dated February 26, 1888
№ 451707   Added Viker 14-03-2023 / 10:02
Yes, I am more and more convinced that the point is not in old and not in new forms, but in the fact that a person writes without thinking about any forms, writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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A woman, Kostya, does not need anything, just look at her kindly.
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I kiss you, hug you, pat you on the back and do everything that a lawful husband is allowed to do ... Be healthy, my horse.
Quote Explanation: Letter to Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (October 2, 1903, Yalta).
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