There is nothing more vulgar than a petty bourgeois life with its halfpence, its victuals, its futile talk, and its useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov 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 The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy... Anton Chekhov greed happiness thinking Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. Anton Chekhov aptitude spirit facts I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious Anton Chekhov educated religious men When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life. Anton Chekhov mourning black said I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. Anton Chekhov criteria categories two Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does. Anton Chekhov hatred doe people In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Anton Chekhov psychology essentials character Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. Anton Chekhov dream happiness lying Man will become better when you show him what he is like. Anton Chekhov blank-slates insight men No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. Anton Chekhov psychology fake-people doe And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. Anton Chekhov gray first-time firsts For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace. Anton Chekhov soul life school Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. Anton Chekhov grumbling miscarriage art In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit. Anton Chekhov remains permanent spirit There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail. Anton Chekhov numbers trying people When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries. Anton Chekhov cash each-day world In a century or two, or in a millennium, people will live in a new way, a happier way. We won"t be there to see it - but it"s why we live, why we work. It"s why we suffer. We"re creating it. That"s the purpose of our existence. The only happiness we can know is to work toward that goal. Anton Chekhov creating two people The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. Anton Chekhov silence unhappy men Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another. Anton Chekhov tree wind thinking
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