No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
Anton ChekhovHow unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Anton ChekhovIn two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
Anton ChekhovNot one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
Anton ChekhovCritics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'
Anton Chekhov