Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it. Anton Chekhov coarse punishment math All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!' Anton Chekhov important long people Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy. Anton Chekhov stars sleep morning We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well. Anton Chekhov wells literature Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions. Anton Chekhov conceited writing moving A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend. Anton Chekhov bad-friend friendship sex One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work. Anton Chekhov creative-work creative Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up. Anton Chekhov meals simple people I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day... Anton Chekhov husband moon sky You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you. Anton Chekhov horse taken lying Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority. Anton Chekhov speak authority lying If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. Anton Chekhov marriage inspirational love It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand. Anton Chekhov poor Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov eternal important writing Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature. Anton Chekhov should Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are. Anton Chekhov wish want desire Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work. Anton Chekhov five-senses one-day men People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. Anton Chekhov summer happy happiness You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know. Anton Chekhov carrots asking life I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience. Anton Chekhov best-effort police criticism
