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Sometimes life played with him, sometimes it hung on him like a stone round the neck of a drowned man.
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When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where today it flows in shallows, like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, tomorrow it will flow richly and fully.
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And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.
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In this winter night, long and ample for bitter memories, many a widow who lost her husband in the war and is now left alone will press her palms to her ageing face; and in the nocturnal darkness the burning tears, as bitter as wormwood, will scorch her fingers.
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The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again—and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass.
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'The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!'
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
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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)
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