There was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures.

Но в душах их был мир с самими собой.
Ими владело бесстрашие людей, утерявших в с ё до конца,- бесстрашие, достающееся трудно, но прочно.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Fearlessness

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source

In the First Circle

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Political dissident Writer

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Russia Europe

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Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 87.

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