We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.
Even though they were his contemporaries and countrymen, Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev was not very fond of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He much preferred the company of Western European writers, and his closest literary friend was French novelist Gustave Flaubert.
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