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Soviet poet and children's writer (1903-1985).
Born March 5th, 1903 in Saint Petersburg.
Died February 6th, 1985 at 81 years old in Kyiv.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel