Russia, Novelist November 9, 1818 – September, 3, 1883.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( O.S.October 28, 1818 (9 November) – September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.
You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.
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