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 crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs.
Anton ChekhovDeath is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
Anton ChekhovA good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
Anton ChekhovIt is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.
Anton Chekhov