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Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.
Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.
Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
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- Vasily Grossman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1928 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Vasily Grossman: documented activity in 1928. Wikidata Q313767, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313767 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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