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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was a Soviet novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization, primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don. The authorship of even his most famous texts has been widely disputed. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. May 1905 – 21. February 1984  •  Other names Michail Alexandrowitsch Scholochow
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And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
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Famous Mikhail Sholokhov Quotes

“‘ The Don! The Don! The gentle Don! Our father; giver of our food! Hurrah!’”

Mikhail Sholokhov book And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“Sometimes life played with him, sometimes it hung on him like a stone round the neck of a drowned man.”

Mikhail Sholokhov book And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where to-day it flows in shallows, like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, to-morrow it will flow richly and fully.”

Mikhail Sholokhov book And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again—and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass.”

Mikhail Sholokhov book And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.”

Mikhail Sholokhov book And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)

“In this winter night, long and ample for bitter memories, many a widow who lost her husband in the war and is now left alone will press her palms to her ageing face; and in the nocturnal darkness the burning tears, as bitter as wormwood, will scorch her fingers.”

Mikhail Sholokhov

From A Word on Our Country.
One Man's Destiny (1967)

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