Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
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Ivan Turgenev
These are some quotes by Russian author Ivan Turgenev Novelist, who lived between October 28, 1818 and September 3, 1883.
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