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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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