“ No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characteriz… Anton Chekhov
“ True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know. Anton Chekhov
“ Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice. Anton Chekhov
“ These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crims… Anton Chekhov
“ Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth." Anton Chekhov
“ One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. Anton Chekhov
“ Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. Anton Chekhov
“ Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are… Anton Chekhov
“ Civilized people must, I believe, satisfy the following criteria:1) They respect human beings as individuals and are therefore always tolerant, gentle, courteous and amenable ... They do not create sc… Anton Chekhov
“ Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life. Anton Chekhov
“ Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, firework… Anton Chekhov
“ In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spri… Anton Chekhov
“ As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of… Anton Chekhov
“ ...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoughts. . . .Often I see a beautiful face and clothes… Anton Chekhov
“ If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would no… Anton Chekhov
“ [W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers Anton Chekhov
