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In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Novel · Political literature

In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

In the original Russian

У нас так говорили: старый месяц Бог на звёзды крошит.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich · 1962
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Topic
StarsThe moonThe night sky
Statement type
Folk wisdom
Genre
Political literature
Medium
Novel
Time
1962
Person
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Citation
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. "Один день Ивана Денисовича [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]." Novy Mir, Nov. 1962.

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