The Kiss Quotes

“The river ran on, no one knew where or why, just as it had in May; from a small stream it flowed into a large river to the sea, then rose to vapor and returned in rain; and perhaps the very same water he had seen in May was again flowing before his eyes...For what purpose? Why? And the whole world, all of life, seemed to Ryabovich to be an incomprehensible, aimless jest.”
― Anton Chekhov , The Kiss