"We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family."

“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.”

“It was me, Austin. It was me all along, Austin!”

“I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.”

“There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.”

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“You cannot go into the same water twice.”

“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.”

“There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.”

“People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.”

Source : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA