"When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains."

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I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

— Anton Chekhov