Reuters quote of the day, February 13

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) Following is a notable quote from history: ''I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less ... than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.'' -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel prize-winning author, who was deported from the Soviet Union on February. 13, 1974, and deprived of Soviet citizenship. He eventually settled in Vermont in the United States, but returned to Russia in 1994.

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