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Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
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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