Another’s soul is a dark forest. — Ivan Turgenev

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Another’s soul is a dark forest.

Ivan Turgenev

1850

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Turgenev, Ivan. A Month in the Country. Oxford University Press, 1991, act 1.

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Turgenev, Ivan. Two Women. 1855, act 1.

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