Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Mikhail Sholokhov
Born: May 24, 1905
Died: February 21, 1984 (aged 78)
Bio: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Soviet/Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for:
- And Quiet Flows the Don (1928)
- Destiny of a Man (1957)
- Virgin Soil Upturned (1935)
- The Don Flows Home to the Sea (1940)
- The Fate of a Man (1956)