There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. (Alexander Herzen)

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Alexander Herzen

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