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For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Age: 60 †
Born: 1821
Born: January 1
Died: 1881
Died: January 1
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