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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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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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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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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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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
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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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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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The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
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Cracks make caves collapse.
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