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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
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I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.
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You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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Work is what horses die of
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
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A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a growing demand. Quite recently, the state-owned TV channel 'Russia' aired a series based on Varlam Shalamov's works, showing the terrible, cruel truth about Stalin's camps. It was not watered down.
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