“ Love alone can bring happiness on earth, love the enchanting, the poetical love of youth, that sweeps away the sorrows of the world. ”
Anton Chekhov, The Seagull (1896). copy citation
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
|---|---|
| Source | The Seagull |
| Topic | youth happiness |
| Date | 1896 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | The Seagull, Act III |
| Note | Translated by Marian Fell |
| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Seagull/Act_III |
Context
“ARKADINA. [Shuddering] No, no! I am only an ordinary woman; you must not say such things to me. Do not torment me, Boris; you frighten me.
TRIGORIN. You could be an extraordinary woman if you only would. Love alone can bring happiness on earth, love the enchanting, the poetical love of youth, that sweeps away the sorrows of the world. I had no time for it when I was young and struggling with want and laying siege to the literary fortress, but now at last this love has come to me. I see it beckoning; why should I fly?
ARKADINA. [With anger]”
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