Vera; or, The Nihilists: Quotes

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• "Experience, the name men give to their mistakes."

  Prince Paul Maraloffski · Act II

• "Heaven is a despotism. I shall be at home there."

  Prince Paul Maraloffski · Act II

• "Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform."

  Michael · Act I

• "I don't know; there is so much else to do in the world but love."

  Vera Sabouroff · Prologue

• "One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour."

  Alexis · Act IV

• "The love of a people is a king's best body-guard."

  Alexis · Act IV