"The intellectual is not defined by professional group……" — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in themselves to produce an intellectual. An intellectual is a person whose interest in and preoccupation with the spiritual side of life are insistent and constant and not forced by external circumstances, even flying in the face of them. An intellectual is a person whose thought is nonimitative."
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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