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Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Not Death Itself, But Only The Moral

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
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