Her master had kept her not for profit, for she had babies only once in two years, not from attachment either, for he was a rolling stone, always strolling about and hardly ever sober.Anton Chekhov
In Central Russia hares and foxes, families of stray dogs and single dogs, live dispersed in the fields and forests without ever gathering into societies; they all avoid each other, showing in this respect an analogy with the evening gatherings of ladies in summer holiday places.Anton Chekhov
Now that she was living in freedom, among pigs and mongrels, she saw clearly that in her past life she had been a simple fool, and that everything called art and superiority was only a deception.Anton Chekhov
For the first time in her life she was seeing people who lived without worrying about tomorrow, with no store set apart for the future, who ate all they got without putting by, and went about in winter in cotton dresses.Anton Chekhov
Kashtanka was told to growl, to roar like a lion, to play dead, to jump over a stick, and finally to stand on her hind-legs and move about the stage with steps sideways, like a schoolboy in a drill.Anton Chekhov
One who had spent all his life among intellectual dogs in educated society had to avoid uncouth mongrels whom it was considered shameful to be seen with even in the street.Anton Chekhov
The soul has no actions of its own, it is a passive, indifferent, it all depends on the character of the individual.Anton Chekhov
Of all the overwhelming majority of animals who lead a humble and oppressed existence, only sturdy, insolent dogs whose stomachs are fed up with practice in patience acquire this dandified cockiness.Anton Chekhov
This man was a great individualist. Having once been offended by fate, he firmly believed in the justice of his resentment and in his right to independence.Anton Chekhov
In the evening she had to perform again, and the shouting, laughter, and music, and the drunken peasant who during the performance played with her ears, saying: 'Kashtanka, stand on your hind-legs!' annoyed and angered her.Anton Chekhov