The Essence of Life – Chekhov (Russian)
The more you understand life, the more you will understand that in reality, the deepest and most powerful things are pauses. Pauses are a phenomenon of reality itself; they can represent the completion of a recently experienced turmoil, or they can lead to the trigger of an emotion about to descend, or indicate a tense silence. Life's hardships, life's passivity, are all manifestations of these pauses. Pauses are not a dead thing, but a tense state with potential energy.
Excerpts from 'The Reader' Issue 5, 2020
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