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Circumstances define us they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
Dramaturge
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
Circumstances
Force
Another
Punish
Onto
Define
Road

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