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We didn't love freedom enough.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From the first clang of the rail to the last clang of the rail. Three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days. The three extra days were for leap years.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
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There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
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