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“My friend, healthy and normal people are only the common herd.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk

“How fortunate Buddha, Mahomed, and Shakespeare were that their kind relations and
doctors did not cure them of their ecstasy and their inspiration," said Kovrin. "If Mahomed
had taken bromide for his nerves, had worked only two hours out of the twenty-four, and
had drunk milk, that remarkable man would have left no more trace after him than his dog.
Doctors and kind relations will succeed in stupefying mankind, in making mediocrity pass
for genius and in bringing civilisation to ruin. If only you knew.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk

“I was going mad, I was a megalomaniac, but on the other hand, I was cheerful, bright and even happy - I was interesting and original. Now I've become more sensible and sound, but on the other hand, I'm the same as everybody else: I'm a mediocrity, life bores me... Oh, you've been so cruel to me!”
― Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk

“He thought how much life exacts for the worthless or very commonplace blessings it can give a man. For instance, to gain, before forty, a university chair, to be an ordinary professor, to expound ordinary and second-hand thoughts in dull, heavy, insipid language -- in fact, to gain the position of a mediocre learned man, he, Kovrin, had had to study for fifteen years, to work day and night, to endure a terrible mental illness, to experience an unhappy marriage, and to do a great number of stupid and unjust things which it would have been pleasant not to remember. Kovrin recognised clearly, now, that he was a mediocrity, and readily resigned himself to it, as he considered that every man ought to be satisfied with what he is.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Black Monk