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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

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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