Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard (1904)

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If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.

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The Lord God has given us vast forests, immense fields, wide horizons; surely we ought to be giants, living in such a country as this.

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You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

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I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

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If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

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The cherry orchard is now mine!... I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even permitted in the kitchen.

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Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

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To begin to live in the present, we must first atone for our past and be finished with it, and we can only atone for it by suffering, by extraordinary, unceasing exertion.

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If doctors prescribe too many remedies for an illness it probably means that the illness can't be cured at all.

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You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

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I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

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