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.
Anton ChekhovIf our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.
Anton ChekhovWrite about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.
Anton ChekhovThere is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
Anton ChekhovI donโt understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
Anton Chekhov