Anton Pavlovič Čechov: Citáty anglicky (strana 5)

Anton Pavlovič Čechov byl ruský dramatik a prozaik. Citáty anglicky.
Anton Pavlovič Čechov: 288   citátů 612   lajků

“Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.”

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Anton Chekhov

Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.”

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Letter to his brother, M.P. Chekhov (April 1879)
Originál: Ничтожество свое сознавай, знаешь где? Перед богом, пожалуй, пред умом, красотой, природой, но не пред людьми. Среди людей нужно сознавать свое достоинство.

“It has become customary to say that a man needs only six feet of land. But a corpse needs six feet, not a person.”

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Anton Chekhov kniha Gooseberries

Gooseberries (1898)

“When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.”

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Fatherlessness or Platonov, Act I, sc. xiv (1878)

“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.”

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Act I
The Three Sisters (1901)

“Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.”

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Letter to P.A. Sergeenko (March 6, 1889)
Originál: Лермонтов умер 28 лет, а написал больше, чем оба мы с тобой вместе. Талант познается не только по качеству, но и по количеству им сделанного

“Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.”

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Anton Chekhov kniha Peasants

Peasants (1897)

“What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.”

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Act I
The Three Sisters (1901)

“It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.”

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Letter to I.P. Chekhov (October 2, 1897)
Letters

“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”

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Anton Chekhov kniha After the Theatre

After the Theatre (1892)

“When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.”

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Letter to A.S. Suvorin (May 7, 1889)
Letters

“It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.”

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Act IV
The Seagull (1896)

“The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.”

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Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness…. The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself…. This is what I think about Russian suicides.”

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Letter to D.V. Grigorovich (February 5, 1888)
Letters

“Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.”

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Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RLrfgZwfeeUC&q=%22Great+Jove+angry+is+no+longer+Jove%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage
The Seagull (1896)

“The more refined the more unhappy.”

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Alernate translation: The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
Чем культурнее, тем несчастнее.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)

“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.”

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Alternate translation: Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
Тогда человек станет лучше, когда вы покажете ему, каков он есть…
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)