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“ “If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter.””
Uncle Vanya • Anton Chekhov“It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”
Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens““He had no craving for truth, and had not sought it;spellbound by vice and lying, his conscience had slept or been silent. Like a stranger, like an alien from another planet, he had taken no part in the common life of men, and had been indifferent to their sufferings, their ideas, their religion, their sciences, their strivings, and their struggles. He had not said one good word, not written one line that was not useless and vulgar; he had not done his fellows one ha'p'orth of service, but had eaten their bread, drunk their wine, seduced their wives, lived on their thoughts, and to justify his contemptible, parasitic life in their eyes and his own, he had always tried to assume an air of being higher and better than they. Lies, lies...””
The Duel • Anton Chekhov“ “A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.””
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind • Yuval Noah Harari“No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.”
Meditations • Marcus Aurelius