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August 3: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Conrad


Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886.Wikipedia
Born: December 3, 1857, Berdychiv, Ukraine
Died: August 3, 1924, Bishopsbourne, United Kingdom
Full name: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Movies: Apocalypse Now, The Duellists, Hanyut, MORE
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

 "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!"
— from VICTORY
“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.” 
―from ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Joseph Conrad, author of the novels “Heart of Darkness” and “Lord Jim”, died on August 3rd 1924. English was his third language after Polish and French; he felt that he was “adopted by the genius of the language”




Why do writers abandon their native language?
Joseph Conrad died on this day in 1924
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2017.12.13
//再一次我想起個把星期之前，李怡先生在他的專欄引述了前蘇聯離心份子作家、諾貝爾獎得主索忍尼辛對「謊言」的說法：「我們知道他們在說謊，他們也知道自己是說謊，他們也知道我們知道他們在說謊，我們也知道他們知道我們知道他們說謊，但是他們依然在說謊」。這段話可說是十分貼切地說明了中共治下今天的國情。
中國駐美大使竟然面對幾百名包括中國留學生、台灣僑胞及媒體記者的聽眾說，中共統一台灣，就可以讓台灣人民「生活更好」、讓他們的「小確幸變成大確幸」。有幾多人會信？他自己信不信？他真的以為別人會信嗎？//


仿佛又回到人人都「說假話、放衛星」的年代了 | 鍾劍華 | 立場新聞
再一次我想起個把星期之前，李怡先生在他的專欄引述了前蘇聯離心份子作家、諾貝爾獎得主索忍尼辛對「...
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. Wikipedia
Born: December 11, 1918, Kislovodsk, Russia
Died: August 3, 2008, Moscow, Russia
Movies: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle
Spouse: Natalia Solzhenitsyna (m. 1973–2008), MORE
Quotes

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

He was not another Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. Often the characters in Solzhenitsyn's books were one-dimensional, the tone sardonic, the detail turgid. But his indestructibility gave him, over the years, a prophet's voice




Alexander Solzhenitsyn saw himself as a visionary who would mend Russia
Solzhenitsyn died on August 3rd 2008
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