Kerry Lawlor

“Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.”
― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.”
― Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories

“A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.”
― Anton Chekhov, Ivanov

“To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.”
― Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov