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Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev
Age: 65 †
Born: 1818
Born: January 1
Died: 1883
Died: January 1
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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