“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”

—  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

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