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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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