Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence,... - Anton Chekhov

"Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done."

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."

"There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality."