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Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
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
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If it goes well with you, then all is well.
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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
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