“Well, he used to say that the great thing in married life was patience. Do you hear, Vanya? Not love, but patience. Love cannot last long. You have lived two years in love, and now evidently your married life has reached the period when, in order to preserve equilibrium, so to speak, you ought to exercise all your patience. . . .” Seagull
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing – here is perfection of character. Book VII
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. Like a train into which one jumps without thinking, and without asking oneself where it is going. The Counterfeiters
“He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.” Uncle Vanya
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