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Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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