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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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When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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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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