The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul... (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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