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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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