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Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: Knocking On Nature’s Door

However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

– Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883), Russian author. Shubin, in On the Eve, ch. 1 (1860).
Comparing nature to “life” (in fact, women).


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