Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eye-wash.

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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

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A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.

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A man should build a house with his own hands before before he calls himself an engineer.

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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.

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Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D'you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men's left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.

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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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Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?

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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

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