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For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight—and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?

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Isaac Babel
Age: 45 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 12
Died: 1940
Died: January 27
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