Anton Checkov

“I look at this life and see the arrogance and the idleness of the strong, the ignorance and bestiality of the weak, the horrible poverty everywhere, overcrowding, drunkenness, hypocrisy, falsehood. . . . Meanwhile in all the houses, all the streets, there is peace; out of fifty thousand people who live in our town there is not one to kick against it all. Think of the people who go to the market for food: during the day they eat; at night they sleep, talk nonsense, marry, grow old, piously follow their dead to the cemetery; one never sees or hears those who suffer, and all the horror of life goes on somewhere behind the scenes.”
― Anton Checkov

“قال زوج الأخت بعد العشاء: كل شيء في هذا العالم له نهاية. اعلم إذا وقعت في الحب، فسوف تعاني، تخطئ، وتندم، إن تخلصت من الحب، فاعلم أنها ستكون نهاية كل هذا.”
― Anton Checkov