There are no lower or higher or median moralities. There is only one morality, and it is precisely the one that was given to us during the time of Je… - Anton Chekhov

Oh, how people love to disappear from your life. Especially when you already got attached to them.

The Colonel knew by experience that in women like his wife, Sofya Lvovna, after a little too much wine, turbulent gaiety was followed by hysterical laughter and then tears. He was afraid that when they got home, instead of being able to sleep, he would have to be administering compresses and drops.

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.