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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act. . .

Source: My Past and Thoughts, vol. 3, pt. 8, Miscellaneous Pieces: From the Other World and from This (1921; tr. by Constance Garnett, 1924 --27).
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.

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