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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
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Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
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To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
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One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
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We didn't love freedom enough.
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I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
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Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.
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The October Revolution is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
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The perception of the West as mostly a knight of democracy has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.
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I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
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Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.
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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God that's why all this has happened.
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Your friend will argue with you.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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