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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
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There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.
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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?
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Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!
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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
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You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
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There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
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The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
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Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
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In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
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