Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The story of an unknown man (№ 25111)

... I want to live, regardless of future generations, and not only for them. Life is given once, and wants to live it cheerfully, intelligently, beautifully. I want to play a prominent, independent, sensible role, I want to make history that same generation had no right to say about each of us: "it was a nonentity, or worse"...