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Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
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