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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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The one who pulls is the one they urge on.
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
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I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
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