The secret for Life

"Man's true vocation is the life of the spirit, the constant search for truth, for the meaning of life."- Anton Chekhov, The House with the Mezzanine, pg. 15

Big government and big corporations serve to enslave

"'To my mind, with things as they are, clinics, schools,  libraries,  dispensaries only serve to enslave people. The peasants are weighed down by a great chain and instead of breaking this chain you're only adding new links - that's what I think.'" - Anton Chekhov, The House with Mezzanine, pg. 13

Be an individual

Alyosha says, "Yes, even if everyone is like that. You be the only one who is not like that. And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment. So do not be like everyone else; even if you are the only one left who is not like that, still do not be like that." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, pg. 558

Love based on Kindred Spirit

"Now I had the chance to meet Luganovich's wife, Anna Alekseyevna. She was still very young then, not more than twenty-two, and her first child had been born six months before. It's all finished now and it's hard for me to say exactly what it was I found so unusual about her, what attracted me so much,but at the time, over dinner, it was all so clear, without a shadow of doubt: here was a young, beautiful, kind, intelligent, enchanting woman, unlike any I'd met before. Immediately I sensed that she was a kindred spirit, someone I knew already, and that her face, with its warm clever eyes, was just like one I had seen before when I was a little boy, in an album lying on my mother's chest of drawers." -Anton Chekhov, About Love, pg. 88