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Ivan's Mother: If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.
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Ivan: Is he a Fritz too?
Galtsev: He's either a German doctor or writer.
Ivan: They have no writers. I saw them burning books in a square. They poured gasoline on them and set them on fire. There was soot in the air for a week.
Galtsev: That writer lived 400 years ago.
Ivan: Well, then maybe.
Nikolay Grinko
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