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 More Quotes by Anton Chekhov More Quotes From Anton Chekhov Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts. Anton Chekhov poverty russia suffering It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment. Anton Chekhov champion punishment suffering I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak. Anton Chekhov philosophical religious love The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to. Anton Chekhov government doe want Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly. Anton Chekhov law two years If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one. Anton Chekhov wall gun book In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball. Anton Chekhov stars eye dog Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone. Anton Chekhov calling stones thinking Advertising is the very essence of democracy. Anton Chekhov transcendentalism democracy essence When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. Anton Chekhov modern-life pain mean My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward. Anton Chekhov artist business thinking What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won't seem important at all. Anton Chekhov serious important forgotten I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life. Anton Chekhov would-be sleep thinking Ah, Caviar! I keep on eating it, but can never get my fill. Like olives. It's a lucky thing it's not salty. Anton Chekhov olives caviar lucky I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles. Anton Chekhov drunk girl time 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. Anton Chekhov library together book One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven. Anton Chekhov technology two people By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations. Anton Chekhov appearance people firsts To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic Anton Chekhov live-simply amusing mean What a delight it is to respect people! Anton Chekhov delight respect people
