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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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