We Shall Meet Again Where the Weary Are at Rest!
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"A adult female tin can go a man'south friend only in the post-obit stages - starting time an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only and then a friend."
― Uncle Vanya
"..when 1 has no existent life, one lives by mirages. Information technology'southward however ameliorate than goose egg."
― Uncle Vanya
"What must homo beings exist, to destroy what they can never create?"
― Uncle Vanya
"SONIA: What can we do? We must live our lives. [A pause] Aye, we shall alive, Uncle Vanya. We shall alive through the long procession of days earlier united states of america, and through the long evenings; we shall patiently acquit the trials that fate imposes on us; nosotros shall work for others without rest, both now and when we are old; and when our last hour comes we shall meet information technology humbly, and there, beyond the grave, nosotros shall say that we have suffered and wept, that our life was bitter, and God volition have pity on us. Ah, so love, dear Uncle, nosotros shall see that brilliant and cute life; nosotros shall rejoice and wait dorsum upon our sorrow here; a tender smile—and—we shall balance. I take faith, Uncle, fervent, passionate faith. [SONIA kneels down before her uncle and lays her head on his hands. She speaks in a weary voice] We shall residual. [TELEGIN plays softly on the guitar] We shall rest. We shall hear the angels. We shall see heaven shining like a jewel. We shall see all evil and all our pain sink abroad in the great pity that shall enfold the globe. Our life will be as peaceful and tender and sweet equally a caress. I take religion; I have faith. [She wipes away her tears] My poor, poor Uncle Vanya, you are crying! [Weeping] You lot have never known what happiness was, just await, Uncle Vanya, wait! Nosotros shall rest. [She embraces him] We shall rest. [The WATCHMAN'S rattle is heard in the garden; TELEGIN plays softly; MME. VOITSKAYA writes something on the margin of her pamphlet; MARINA knits her stocking] We shall rest."
― Uncle Vanya
"This man, who for twenty-v years has been reading and writing nigh art, and in all that fourth dimension has never understood anything about art, has for twenty-five years been hashing over other people's ideas most realism, naturalism and all that nonsense; for twenty-5 years he has been reading and writing most what intelligent people already know and well-nigh what stupid people don't want to know--which means that for twenty-five years he's been taking cypher and making nothing out of it. And with it all, what conceit! What pretension!"
― Uncle Vanya
"One hundred years from at present, the people who come later on u.s.a., for whom our lives are showing the way--will they remember of u.s. kindly? Will they retrieve us with a kind discussion? I wish to God I could recall so."
― Uncle Vanya
"There is no greater sorrow than to know another'southward secret when you cannot aid them."
― Uncle Vanya
"When a adult female is plain, people say, 'What beautiful optics y'all have, cute hair."
― Uncle Vanya
"HELENA. What a fine day! Non besides hot. [A pause.]
VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself."
― Uncle Vanya
"Everything should be get-go-rate in a person, his face, wearing apparel, soul and thoughts."
― Uncle Vanya
"..1 has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what nosotros tin can not create.."
― Uncle Vanya
"he is a man of genius. Practise you know what that means? It ways he is brave, profound, and of clear insight. He plants a tree and his mind travels a thousand years into the future, and he sees visions of the happiness of the human race. People like him are rare and should be loved."
― Uncle Vanya
"A adult female can only become a man'southward friend afterward having commencement been his acquaintance and then his dearest—then she becomes his friend."
― Uncle Vanya
"for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing things that clever men have long known and stupid ones are not interested in;"
― Uncle Vanya
"Who just a stupid barbaric could burn down then much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make? Man is endowed with reason and the ability to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has non created, but demolished. The forests are disappearing, the rivers are running dry, the game is exterminated, the climate is spoiled, and the earth becomes poorer and uglier every day."
― Uncle Vanya
"And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life."
― Uncle Vanya
"An idle life cannot be pure."
― Uncle Vanya
"I used to remember every fool was out of his senses, but now I encounter that lack of sense is a man's normal country, and you are perfectly normal."
― Uncle Vanya
"Why cannot you wait calmly at a woman unless she is yours?"
― Uncle Vanya
"God alone knows what a human'due south existent calling is."
― Uncle Vanya
"Human is endowed with reason and the power to create, so that he may increase that which has been given him, but until now he has not created, but demolished."
― Uncle Vanya
"If you could only see your face, your gestures! Oh, how irksome your life must be."
― Uncle Vanya
"...shallow in thought, shallow in feeling."
― Uncle Vanya
"Ne yapabiliriz? Yaşamak gerek! Yaşayacağız Vanya Dayı. Çok uzun günler, boğucu akşamlar geçireceğiz. Alınyazımızın bütün sınavlarına sabırla katlanacağız. Bugün de, yaşlılığımızda da, dinlenmek bilmeden, başkaları için çalışıp didineceğiz. Ecel saati gelip çatınca da uysalca öleceğiz ve orda, mezarın ötesinde, çok acı çektik, gözyaşı döktük, çok acı şeyler yaşadık diyeceğiz... Tanrı da acıyacak bize ve biz seninle canım dayıcığım, parlak, güzel, sevimli bir hayata kavuşacağız ve buradaki mutsuzluklarımıza sevecenlikle, hoşgörüyle gülümseyeceğiz ve dinleneceğiz... İnanıyorum buna dayıcığım, bütün kalbimle, tutkuyla inanıyorum... Dinleneceğiz! Dinleneceğiz! Melekleri dinleyeceğiz, elmas gibi yıldızlarla kaplı gökleri göreceğiz. Dünyanın tüm kötülüklerinin, tüm acılarımızın, dünyayı baştan başa kaplayacak olan merhametin önünde silinip gittiğini göreceğiz ve hayatımız bir okşama gibi dingin, yumuşak ve tatlı olacak. İnanıyorum, inanıyorum buna! Zavallı, zavallı Vanya dayı, ağlıyorsun... Hayatında mutluluğu tadamadın, ama bekle Vanya dayı, bekle... Dinleneceğiz, Dinleneceğiz..."
― Uncle Vanya
"Merely, equally I was saying, life holds zip for me; my race is run. I am sometime, I am tired, I am piffling; my sensibilities are expressionless. I could never adhere myself to any one once again."
― Uncle Vanya
"I am drunkard. I usually just beverage like this once a month. At such times my brazenness and temerity know no bounds. I feel capable of annihilation. I attempt the most difficult operations and do them magnificently. The most brilliant plans for the hereafter take shape in my head. I am no longer a poor fool of a doctor, but mankind'due south greatest benefactor. I evolve my ain organisation of philosophy and all of you seem to crawl at my feet similar so many insects or microbes."
― Uncle Vanya
"A man should be entirely cute: the face, the apparel, the mind, the thoughts. Your footstep-mother is, of course, beautiful to expect at, but don't you encounter? She does nothing but sleep and swallow and walk and bewitch the states, and that is all. She has no responsibilities, everything is done for her—am I not right? And an idle life can never exist a pure one."
― Uncle Vanya
"I am a book-worm and a scholar, and am unfamiliar with practical affairs."
― Uncle Vanya
"My life has been a failure. I am clever and dauntless and strong. If I had lived a normal life I might take get another Schopenhauer or Dostoieffski. I am losing my caput!"
― Uncle Vanya
"Why cannot you lot expect calmly at a woman unless she is yours? Because, the doctor was right, you are all possessed past a devil of destruction; you have no mercy on the woods or the birds or on women or on ane another."
― Uncle Vanya
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