Quotation by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

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All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883), Russian author. Bazarov, Fathers and Sons, ch. 19 (1862).

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