What I say...

Everything I say about myself:

Act 1:
“I’m in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.”
“I very touched by your love but I can’t return it, that’s all.”
“In your eyes there’s no greater misfortune than poverty, but in mine it’s a thousand times easier to go in rags and live by begging than to…”
“Speak to my father yourself. I shan’t speak to him so please don’t ask me to.”
“I don’t care much for my father. I feel in my heart that there is a closeness between you and me.”
“Help me before I do something foolish. Make a mess of my life, ruin everything.”
“I can’t go on any more.”
“I’m in such torment. No one knows the torment I’m in.”
“I love Konstantin Gavrilovich.”

Act 2:
“And I feel as if I’d been born long, long ago; I carry my life about with me, like the endless train of a dress… And often I have no urge to live.”
“I must pull myself together, get rid of it all.”
“My legs gone to sleep…”

Act 3:
“I’m telling you all this as a writer.”
“I tell you frankly: if he’d wounded himself seriously, I couldn’t have lived a moment longer. But I am brave. I went and decided: I’m going to rip this love from my heart, rip it out by the roots.”
“I’m getting married. To Medvendenko.”
“But when I get married there won’t be any time for love, new cares will wipe out all the past.”
“A few drink openly like me, but most do it in secret.”
“And they all drink vodka or brandy.”
“I’m sorry for him. And I’m sorry for his old mother.” (Medvendenko)
“I’m very grateful to you for being so kind to me.” (Trigorin)
“Only please don’t write ‘To my dear friend’, but just ‘To Marya, parentage forgotten, purpose of existence in this world unknown.’”

Act 4:
“Once we move there I’ll forget everything… I’ll rip it out of my heart by the roots.”
“If only my Semyon gets the transfer, believe me, I’ll forget in a month.”
“Long ago.” (Married)