“ If a man is in prison, or let us say blind or crippled, thatreally is trouble I wouldn't wish anyone, but if a man's free andhas all his senses, if he has his eyes and his hands and his strengthand God, what more does he want? ”
Anton Chekhov, My Life (1896). copy citation
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
|---|---|
| Source | My Life |
| Topic | prison strength |
| Date | 1896 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Constance Garnett |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Life_(Chekhov) |
Context
“he drinks kvass with a cockroach in
it, and doesn't bother to blow it away!"
"It's their poverty, of course," my sister put in.
"Poverty? There is want to be sure, there's different sorts of want,
Madam. If a man is in prison, or let us say blind or crippled, that
really is trouble I wouldn't wish anyone, but if a man's free and
has all his senses, if he has his eyes and his hands and his strength
and God, what more does he want? It's cockering themselves, and
it's ignorance, Madam, it's not poverty. If you, let us suppose,
good gentlefolk, by your education, wish out of kindness to help
him he will drink away your money in his low way;”
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