let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. - Anton Chekhov

من دون شعب مُثقّف ثقافة واسعة ، ستنهار الدولة .. تعوّدنا أن نعيش ونحن نأمل بطقس جيّد ، بالثروة بال.. بال.. ولكنّني لا ألاحظ أن أحداً يأمل بأن يزداد ذكاءً

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

This is what I want to say to you: you are free, and can live as you like." There was a silence. She began crying quietly. "I set you free from the necessity of lying and keeping up pretences," Nikolay Yevgrafitch continued. "If you love that young man, love him; if you want to go abroad to him, go.