From “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov

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“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don’t want to understand you.”
–from “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov

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Auntie, Sister. Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Mother and Wife of German Descent I've lived in Australia since 1959 together with my husband Peter. We have four children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. I started blogging because I wanted to publish some of my childhood memories. I am blogging now also some of my other memories. I like to publish some photos too as well as a little bit of a diary from the present time. Occasionally I publish a story with a bit of fiction in it. Peter, my husband, is publishing some of his stories under berlioz1935.wordpress.com View all posts by auntyuta

Published March 27, 2015

4 thoughts on “From “The Bet” by Anton Chekhov”

gerard oosterman says:

March 27, 2015 at 3:15 pm

I like all of Chekhov’s books and quotes.

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1. auntyuta says:
  
  March 27, 2015 at 5:49 pm
  
  🙂
  
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Robert M. Weiss says:

March 28, 2015 at 3:11 am

Chekhov is a master of short stories, but his attitude towards his characters is often tinged with irony, so one must be careful when quoting.

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1. auntyuta says:
  
  March 28, 2015 at 6:17 am
  
  To be honest, Robert, I have no idea what “The Bet” story’s characters are like. Maybe some kind of irony is allowed when you think about it how people often take lies for truth and so on.
  
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