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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

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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Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
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School Teacher
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Wretch
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Belly
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Tomorrow

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