Here are some insightful quotes from Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy was a very influential philospher, novelist, playwright in russia while Chekhov was still around, maybe he was of some influence. check it out. some of the quotes are complete summaries of certain relationships in The Three Sisters:
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.”
“He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.”
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness”
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
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