When I work for hours without getting tired, I am easy in my mind and I seem to know why I exist. But God alone knows what most of the people in Russia were born for. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard work meaning of life
O Lord, you have given us mighty forests, boundless fields, the widest horizons, and we who live here ought really to be giants. Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard Russians Russia