Anton Chekhov Quote

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.


The Tales of Chekhov... (ed. 1917)


He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been ...

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been ...

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been ...

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been ...