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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov – The Man Behind the Books: Letters, Diary, Memoirs & Biography

  • Марта Джонуаalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
    There are people who can be demoralized even by children’s books, and who read with particular pleasure the piquant passages in the Psalms and in Solomon’s Proverbs, while there are others who become only the purer from closer knowledge of the filthy side of life.
  • Марта Джонуаalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
    There are people who can be demoralized even by children’s books, and who read with particular pleasure the piquant passages in the Psalms and in Solomon’s Proverbs, while there are others who become only the purer from closer knowledge of the filthy
  • Марта Джонуаalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
    Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions:
    1. They respect human personality, and therefore they are always kind, gentle, polite, and ready to give in to others. They do not make a row because of a hammer or a lost piece of indiarubber; if they live with anyone they do not regard it as a favour and, going away, they do not say “nobody can live with you.” They forgive noise and cold and dried-up meat and witticisms and the presence of strangers in their homes.
    2. They have sympathy not for beggars and cats alone. Their heart aches for what the eye does not see…. They sit up at night in order to help P…., to pay for brothers at the University, and to buy clothes for their mother.
    3. They respect the property of others, and therefor pay their debts.
    4. They are sincere, and
  • Марта Джонуаalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
    I am beginning to reap laurels
  • Марта Джонуаalıntı yaptı9 yıl önce
    Don’t confound “being humble” with “recognizing one’s worthlessness.” …
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