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... understand Solzhenitsyn without grasping the nature of the society in which he was born and lived , and the price he paid for achieving what he did . Secondly , that society also merits study . One is aware that millions of words have ...
... understand Solzhenitsyn without grasping the nature of the society in which he was born and lived , and the price he paid for achieving what he did . Secondly , that society also merits study . One is aware that millions of words have ...
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... understand why great artists have always drawn on the eternal subjects in Holy Scripture , and I can see why they also find inspiration in Shakespeare . But I cannot understand why an artist should be so firmly attached to the subject ...
... understand why great artists have always drawn on the eternal subjects in Holy Scripture , and I can see why they also find inspiration in Shakespeare . But I cannot understand why an artist should be so firmly attached to the subject ...
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... understand . I seethed . I rebelled . . . . I had long ago come to understand the meaning of my arrest , my deathly illness , and many personal misfortunes , but this disaster I could make no sense of . It rendered meaningless ...
... understand . I seethed . I rebelled . . . . I had long ago come to understand the meaning of my arrest , my deathly illness , and many personal misfortunes , but this disaster I could make no sense of . It rendered meaningless ...
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 21 |
1 OUT OF CHAOS AND SUFFERING | 25 |
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