How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous wor… - Anton Chekhov

In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.

Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant.

When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.