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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
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When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
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Was it Gorky who had said, If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
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