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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“Macbeth’s self-​justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.”


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1973.

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