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We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

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Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
Dramaturge
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Stars
Mud
Reach

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I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.
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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
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What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.
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Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
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