Byelikov was simple and had realised that he was simple; he expected no comfort from life, and asked only for peace.Anton Chekhov
The more clearly he saw the impossibility of living, the more persistently he struggled with life.Anton Chekhov
Life neither weighs us down nor permits us to fly free.Anton Chekhov
The world is my case. It is this narrow coffin that I hate.Byelikov
He had no doubts whatever: he knew that he was right.Anton Chekhov
He was neither happy nor unhappy, and was not afraid of dying.Anton Chekhov
He did not care that people would remember him as a monster.Anton Chekhov
I have avoided everything that could disturb my peace.Byelikov
To protect himself from the insults of Fate, he never foregoes the opportunity to conceal himself beneath his uniform and behind his status.Anton Chekhov
Byelikov was like a man who had withdrawn from the world to find in solitude, away from the reach of the human eye, a life that was perfectly regular and decorous.Anton Chekhov