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... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
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