Character: Astrov Mikhail Lvovich

Yes, brother. Throughout the County there were only two decent, intelligent person, I let you. But in some ten years of life narrow-minded, despicable life drew us; it is their rotten fumes poisoned our blood, and we have become as vulgar as all.

An idle life cannot be pure.

... when I hear the noise of young forest, planted my hands, I realize that the climate is a little bit in my power, and that if in a thousand years people will be happy, in this little me and me.

You're not crazy, just eccentric. Buffoon. I no the crank was considered sick, abnormal, and now I'm of the opinion that the normal human condition is to be eccentric. You are quite normal.

All around you some freaks, completely alone cranks; and you live with them two or three years and little by little himself, unwittingly becomes a weirdo.

Direct, clean, free of relationship to nature and to people already there...

In the person all should be beautiful: face and clothes, soul and thoughts.

A woman can be friends with men only in the following sequence: first friend, then lover, then friend.