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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
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 our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
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