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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Sole Substitute For An Experience Which

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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