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“The intellectual is not defined by professional pursuit and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interests in and occupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them.”

Alexander Solschenizyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged) The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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