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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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We will die, but art will remain.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.
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It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
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For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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