“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)

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

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