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Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You only have power over people so long as you dont take everythin

You only have power over people so long as you dont take everything away from them. But when youve robbed a man of everything, hes no longer in your power – hes free again. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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