Nina: Your play's hard to act, there are no living people in it.
Treplev: Living people! We should show life neither as it is nor as it ought to be, but as we see it in our dreams.


The Seagull (1896) act 1

Anton Chekhov Quotes

Nina: Your play's hard to act, there are no living people in it. Treplev: Living people! We should show life neither as it is nor as it ought to be,...

Nina: Your play's hard to act, there are no living people in it. Treplev: Living people! We should show life neither as it is nor as it ought to be,...

Nina: Your play's hard to act, there are no living people in it. Treplev: Living people! We should show life neither as it is nor as it ought to be,...

Nina: Your play's hard to act, there are no living people in it. Treplev: Living people! We should show life neither as it is nor as it ought to be,...