Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1, p. 168, 1973
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident, best known for his work exposing the harsh realities of life in the Soviet Union through his literature. His most famous works, including "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and "The Gulag Archipelago," detailed the experiences of prisoners in the Soviet labor camp system. Solzhenitsyn received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 for the ethical force with which he has pursued the human spirit in his writings.
1918–2008·lived 89 years
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1, p. 168, 1973
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1, p. 25, 1973
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