He is not heroic, he is aware that modern life is full of nondescript melancholy, of discomfort, of queer relationships which beget emotions that are half-ludicrous and yet painful and that an inconclusive ending for all these impulses is much more usual than anything extreme.
— Virginia Woolf on the short stories of Anton Chekhov (via seventyfourspecies) (via quote-book)
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