"Not all of me shall die,"* Shulubin whispered. "'Not all of me shall die."
*A quotation from a Pushkin poem.
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*A quotation from a Pushkin poem.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Not all of me shall die,"* Shulubin whispered. "'Not all of me shall die."
*A quotation from a Pushkin poem.
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*A quotation from a Pushkin poem.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
#CancerWard-a largely autobiographical
account of a group of people who pass
through the cancer wing of a provincial
Soviet hospital in 1955, was hailed by Time as "a literary event of the first magnitude" - Starting November 1st!
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account of a group of people who pass
through the cancer wing of a provincial
Soviet hospital in 1955, was hailed by Time as "a literary event of the first magnitude" - Starting November 1st!
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October 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#CancerWard-a largely autobiographical
account of a group of people who pass
through the cancer wing of a provincial
Soviet hospital in 1955, was hailed by Time as "a literary event of the first magnitude" - Starting November 1st!
#Solzhenitsyn25 www.instagram.com/reel/DQArFyz...
account of a group of people who pass
through the cancer wing of a provincial
Soviet hospital in 1955, was hailed by Time as "a literary event of the first magnitude" - Starting November 1st!
#Solzhenitsyn25 www.instagram.com/reel/DQArFyz...
The cutthroat had pretensions to culture, however. He was reading a book, and had almost finished it.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The cutthroat had pretensions to culture, however. He was reading a book, and had almost finished it.
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Look, she was hanging on a single thread, a single thread of hope. She was only woman,after all.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Look, she was hanging on a single thread, a single thread of hope. She was only woman,after all.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
There is a great satisfaction in remaining faithful; pehaps it is the greatest satisfaction of all. Even if no one knows about your faithfulness, even if no one values it.
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#CancerWard ##Solzhenitsyn25
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There is a great satisfaction in remaining faithful; pehaps it is the greatest satisfaction of all. Even if no one knows about your faithfulness, even if no one values it.
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#CancerWard ##Solzhenitsyn25
It was a universal law: everyone who acts breeds both good and evil. With some it's more good, with others more evil. #CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It was a universal law: everyone who acts breeds both good and evil. With some it's more good, with others more evil. #CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
This autumn I learned from
experience that a man can cross the threshold of death even when
his body is still not dead.
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experience that a man can cross the threshold of death even when
his body is still not dead.
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November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This autumn I learned from
experience that a man can cross the threshold of death even when
his body is still not dead.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
experience that a man can cross the threshold of death even when
his body is still not dead.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
He was a eagle owl, that's what he was. Rusanov at once recognized those fixed, round, completely immobile eyes. The ward was not a particularly merry place as it was, so the last thing they needed was this eagle owl.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
He was a eagle owl, that's what he was. Rusanov at once recognized those fixed, round, completely immobile eyes. The ward was not a particularly merry place as it was, so the last thing they needed was this eagle owl.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
How he would have loved to get through to these thick skulls and see his bit of justice, a tiny, miserable bit but nevertheless justice, So long as he was fighting for it, he would feel like_a human being.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How he would have loved to get through to these thick skulls and see his bit of justice, a tiny, miserable bit but nevertheless justice, So long as he was fighting for it, he would feel like_a human being.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
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And he's got a cancer that
big in him now.'" He smacked his lips with pleasure. "I guess it'll be straight from the operating table onto_the mortuary slab."
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big in him now.'" He smacked his lips with pleasure. "I guess it'll be straight from the operating table onto_the mortuary slab."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
And he's got a cancer that
big in him now.'" He smacked his lips with pleasure. "I guess it'll be straight from the operating table onto_the mortuary slab."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
big in him now.'" He smacked his lips with pleasure. "I guess it'll be straight from the operating table onto_the mortuary slab."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
Doctors have one sacred principle: the patient must never be frightened, he must be encouraged. But with a patient as importunate as Kostoglotov exactly the reverse was required--shock.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Doctors have one sacred principle: the patient must never be frightened, he must be encouraged. But with a patient as importunate as Kostoglotov exactly the reverse was required--shock.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
Kostoglotov had something in reserve-a secret medicine, a mandrake root from Issyk Kul. There was a motive behind his wish to go back to his place in the woodlands--he wanted to treat himself
with the root.
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with the root.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Kostoglotov had something in reserve-a secret medicine, a mandrake root from Issyk Kul. There was a motive behind his wish to go back to his place in the woodlands--he wanted to treat himself
with the root.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
with the root.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
Well, how did it go? Are you better? Oleg was genuinely moved; there was even a tightness in his throat. How little was needed. But a few humane men behind these vile desks and life became completely different.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Well, how did it go? Are you better? Oleg was genuinely moved; there was even a tightness in his throat. How little was needed. But a few humane men behind these vile desks and life became completely different.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
...Dyomka had been taught, knew for certain & fully understood that religion is a drug, a 3-time reactionary dogma, of benefit only to swindlers. Because of it working people in some places were unable to free themselves from exploitation.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
...Dyomka had been taught, knew for certain & fully understood that religion is a drug, a 3-time reactionary dogma, of benefit only to swindlers. Because of it working people in some places were unable to free themselves from exploitation.
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
Solzhenitsyn uses this microcosm of society to critique the broader implications of Soviet life, depicting struggles of individuals against an oppressive regime. #CancerWard serves a meditation on the human condition, resilience, & a quest for meaning in the face of suffering. EBSCO #Solzhenitsyn25
November 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Solzhenitsyn uses this microcosm of society to critique the broader implications of Soviet life, depicting struggles of individuals against an oppressive regime. #CancerWard serves a meditation on the human condition, resilience, & a quest for meaning in the face of suffering. EBSCO #Solzhenitsyn25
"The physiology of optimism," he said approvingly. A good idea.
Very good."
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Very good."
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November 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"The physiology of optimism," he said approvingly. A good idea.
Very good."
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Very good."
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Zhantak grows
there, camel thorn, you know. It's thorn, but in July it produces
pinkish flowers and even a very delicate smell. The Kazakhs make
a hundred medicines out of it."
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Greeks, Kurds and Germans were among those deported to the Kazakh
steppe
there, camel thorn, you know. It's thorn, but in July it produces
pinkish flowers and even a very delicate smell. The Kazakhs make
a hundred medicines out of it."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
Greeks, Kurds and Germans were among those deported to the Kazakh
steppe
November 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Zhantak grows
there, camel thorn, you know. It's thorn, but in July it produces
pinkish flowers and even a very delicate smell. The Kazakhs make
a hundred medicines out of it."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
Greeks, Kurds and Germans were among those deported to the Kazakh
steppe
there, camel thorn, you know. It's thorn, but in July it produces
pinkish flowers and even a very delicate smell. The Kazakhs make
a hundred medicines out of it."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
Greeks, Kurds and Germans were among those deported to the Kazakh
steppe
These "Honored Scientists" went about with a suite of followers, like some new Christ with his Apostles. They completely lost the right to make mistakes or not to know something, they lost the right to be allowed to think things over.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
These "Honored Scientists" went about with a suite of followers, like some new Christ with his Apostles. They completely lost the right to make mistakes or not to know something, they lost the right to be allowed to think things over.
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
As he left the room it seemed to him that he was walking between two eternities, on one side was a list of the living, with its inevitable crossings out--on the other eternal exile. Eternal as the stars, as the galaxies.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
As he left the room it seemed to him that he was walking between two eternities, on one side was a list of the living, with its inevitable crossings out--on the other eternal exile. Eternal as the stars, as the galaxies.
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
Zoya would have preferred something a bit fresher & more wholesome than these clubs, but there were no houses or parties where you could meet young men, only the clubs. In their year and in their faculty there were plenty of Russian girls, but hardly any boys.
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#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Zoya would have preferred something a bit fresher & more wholesome than these clubs, but there were no houses or parties where you could meet young men, only the clubs. In their year and in their faculty there were plenty of Russian girls, but hardly any boys.
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
#CancerWard #Solzhenitsyn25
Everything was discussed in euphemisms & half-allusions (sometimes rven substitutes for substitutes), or else in a way that was a direct antithesis to the truth.
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#CancerWard ##Solzhenitsyn25
November 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Everything was discussed in euphemisms & half-allusions (sometimes rven substitutes for substitutes), or else in a way that was a direct antithesis to the truth.
#CancerWard ##Solzhenitsyn25
#CancerWard ##Solzhenitsyn25
"After all, love is love isn't the
whole of your life. It only happens
sometimes. From a certain age, and up to a certain age..."
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whole of your life. It only happens
sometimes. From a certain age, and up to a certain age..."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"After all, love is love isn't the
whole of your life. It only happens
sometimes. From a certain age, and up to a certain age..."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
whole of your life. It only happens
sometimes. From a certain age, and up to a certain age..."
#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
A month ago the operation had seemed lke the end of life, but now it seemed like salvation. Thus do our standards change.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A month ago the operation had seemed lke the end of life, but now it seemed like salvation. Thus do our standards change.
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#Solzhenitsyn25 #CancerWard
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