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Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Ivan Turgenev

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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
Life
Loses
Rights
Whether
Death
Extinguished
Doesn
Destroys
Nature
Destroying
Care
Creates
Long
Lose

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