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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

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A nihilist is a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

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That vague, crepuscular time, the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

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In days of doubt, in days of sad brooding on my country’s fate, thou alone art my rod and my staff—mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not to fall into despair, seeing all that happens at home? Yet who can think that such a tongue is not given to a great people?

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

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