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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Inspirational Quotes (338)

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Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
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Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
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You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.
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I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
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Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
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A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
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...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
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Not all of me shall die.
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A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.
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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
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If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
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Education doesn't make you smarter.
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Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
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