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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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We will die, but art will remain.
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But what can you say in a letter?
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In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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