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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.
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What a force is laughter.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon it is not for them to crown the edifice.
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... that maxim of Descartes: Question everything! Question everything!
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.
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Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
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The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
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