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In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

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Vissarion Belinsky
Age: 36 †
Born: 1811
Born: May 30
Died: 1848
Died: May 28
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