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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: The beauty of the style of Hérzen--of whom Turguéneff has truly said that he wrote in tears and blood, and that no other…

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The beauty of the style of Hérzen--of whom Turguéneff has truly said that he wrote in tears and blood, and that no other Russian had ever so written--the breadth of his ideas, and his deep love of Russia took possession of me, and I used to read and re-read those pages, even more full of heart than of brain.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin admires the emotional depth and stylistic beauty of Hérzen's writing, which profoundly impacted him.

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