Oh, what has become of my past and where is it? I used to be young, happy, clever, I used to be able to think and frame clever ideas, the present and the future seemed to me full of hope.
Andrey — in Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, Act IV
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- The Three Sisters, Act IV; translated by Julius West (1916); Exact wording and attribution checked. Spoken by Andrey, a fictional character, in The Three Sisters, Act IV. Andrey contrasts his lost ambitions with his present disappointment.
- The Three Sisters, Act IV; translated by Julius West (1916)
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