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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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When the whole discussion of developing a national idea hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.
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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
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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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When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.
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Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
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