In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
Mots clés writing characters creative-process detail generalizations specificity
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
Mots clés writing characters creative-process state-of-mind
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
Anton ChekhovJust look at this life: the insolence and idleness of the strong, the ignorance and brutishness of the weak, impossible poverty all around us, overcrowding, degeneracy, drunkenness, hypocrisy, lies...Yet in all the houses and streets it's quiet, peaceful; of the fifty thousand people who live in town there is not one who would cry out or become loudly indignant. We see those who go to the market to buy food, eat during the day, sleep during the night, who talk their nonsense, get married, grow old, complacently drag their dead to the cemetery; but we don't see or hear those who suffer, and the horrors of life go on somewhere behind the scenes. Everything is quiet, peaceful, and only mute statistics protest: so many gone mad, so many buckets drunk, so many children dead of malnutrition... And this order is obviously necessary; obviously the happy man feels good only because the unhappy bear their burden silently, and without that silence happiness would be impossible. It's a general hypnosis. At the door of every happy, contented man somebody should stand with a little hammer, constantly tapping, to remind him that unhappy people exist, that however happy he may be, sooner or later life will show him its claws, some calamity will befall him--illness, poverty, loss--and nobody will hear or see, just as he doesn't hear or see others now. But there is nobody with a little hammer, the happy man lives on, and the petty cares of life stir him only slightly, as wind stirs an aspen--and everything is fine.
Anton ChekhovMots clés gooseberries
When dawn comes I'm sitting in bed with my arms around my knees and, since I have nothing to do, am trying to know myself. "Know yourself"--what splendid and useful advice; too bad the ancients never thought of showing how to use this advice.
Anton ChekhovMots clés a-boring-story
The leaves did not stir on the trees, cicadas twanged, and the monotonous muffled sound of the sea that rose from below spoke of the peace, the eternal sleep awaiting us. So it rumbled below when there was no Yalta, no Oreanda here; so it rumbles now, and it will rumble as indifferently and as hollowly when we are no more. And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies, perhaps a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing advance of life upon earth, of unceasing movement towards perfection. Sitting beside a young woman who in the dawn seemed so lovely, Gurov, soothed and spellbound by these magical surroundings - the sea, the mountains, the clouds, the wide sky - thought how everything is really beautiful in this world when one reflects: everything except what we think or do ourselves when we forget the higher aims of life and our own human dignity.
Anton ChekhovIn all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
Anton ChekhovMots clés plays chekhov russian litertature
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
Anton ChekhovArt, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling. There are in store for you many unsuccessful days and whole unsuccessful seasons: there will be great misunderstandings and deep disappointments… you must be prepared for all this, expect it and nevertheless, stubbornly, fanatically follow your own way.
Anton Chekhovرأسي مكتظ ، ممتلئ إلى حافته بالأفكار ، و استطيع أن أحس بنبضه و اختلاجاته . أنا لا أهدف إلى أن أكون شيئا غير عادي ، و لا أتوقع أن أخلق إحدي الروائع ، كل ما أريده هو أن أعيش ، و أحلم ، و أتطلع ، و لا يفوتني شئ .. الحياة يا صديقى العزيز ، قصيرة جدا ، و يجب أن نستغلها بأقصي ما نستطيع
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