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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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