Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya (1897)

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov
A woman can only become a man's friend in three stages: first, she's an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend.

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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?

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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

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Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

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Ah, but ignorance is better. At least then there's hope.

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A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages—first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

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Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

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

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When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

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In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

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People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.

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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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