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Anfim Efimovich Samdevyatov
Madame Guichard is the mother of Lara and Rodya. A widow from the Urals, Madame Guichard moves to Moscow in 1905 and takes over a dressmaker’s shop. She is advised and supported by her dead husband’s lawyer, Komarovsky, with whom she also begins an affair. Madame Guichard is emotionally and psychologically fragile. She poisons herself when she learns about Komarovsky’s affair with Lara, and she later represses her own memory of the affair after her suicide attempt fails.
Madame Guichard Quotes in Doctor Zhivago
The Doctor Zhivago quotes below are all either spoken by Madame Guichard or refer to Madame Guichard. 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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Part 2: A Girl from a Different Circle
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If mama finds out, she’ll kill her. Kill her and then take her own life.
How did it happen? How could it happen? Now it’s too late. She should have thought earlier.
Now she’s—what’s it called?—now she’s-a fallen woman. She’s a woman from a French novel, and tomorrow she will go to school and sit at the same desk with those girls, who, compared to her, are still unweaned babies. Lord, Lord, how could it happen!
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Madame Guichard Quotes in Doctor Zhivago
The Doctor Zhivago quotes below are all either spoken by Madame Guichard or refer to Madame Guichard. 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:
).
Part 2: A Girl from a Different Circle
Quotes
If mama finds out, she’ll kill her. Kill her and then take her own life.
How did it happen? How could it happen? Now it’s too late. She should have thought earlier.
Now she’s—what’s it called?—now she’s-a fallen woman. She’s a woman from a French novel, and tomorrow she will go to school and sit at the same desk with those girls, who, compared to her, are still unweaned babies. Lord, Lord, how could it happen!
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