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Anton Chekhov1860–1904

If only I could live the rest of my life in some new way! If I could only wake some still, bright morning and feel that life had begun again; that the past was forgotten and had vanished like smoke.

Anton Chekhov on change

Uncle Vanya (1897), Act IV, spoken by Voitski

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