A Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Cheeky Gets Grow How Language Literary Man Prisoner Putting Quickly Requirements

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian - Novelist
December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008

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