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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“He’s retired, he’s just turned sixty, you know. And on the actual day of his retirement it turned out he wasn’t a radiologist at heart at all, he didn’t want to spend another day of his life on medicine. He’d always wanted to be a beekeeper, and now bees are the only thing he’ll take an interest in. How do these things happen, do you think? If you’re really a beekeeper, how is it that you waste the best years of your life doing something else?”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward: A Novel
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Cancer Ward: A Novel Cancer Ward: A Novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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