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Mariya Vasilyevna Voynitskaya is the mother of both Voynitsky and Professor Serebryakov’s late first wife. She’s a studious older woman, constantly reading and writing as she lives on Serebryakov’s country estate. Unlike her son, Mariya respects the professor and his work. She misses the days when Voynitsky shared in her passion for academic and political matters.
Mariya Vasilyevna Quotes in Uncle Vanya
The Uncle Vanya quotes below are all either spoken by Mariya Vasilyevna or refer to Mariya Vasilyevna. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I am now forty-seven. Till last year, like you, I deliberately tried to cloud my eyes with your learned talk, so as not to see real life — and I thought I was doing right. And now if you only knew! At nights I don’t sleep from vexation, from anger that I so foolishly lost the time when I could have had everything that my age now denies me!
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Mariya Vasilyevna Quotes in Uncle Vanya
The Uncle Vanya quotes below are all either spoken by Mariya Vasilyevna or refer to Mariya Vasilyevna. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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I am now forty-seven. Till last year, like you, I deliberately tried to cloud my eyes with your learned talk, so as not to see real life — and I thought I was doing right. And now if you only knew! At nights I don’t sleep from vexation, from anger that I so foolishly lost the time when I could have had everything that my age now denies me!
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