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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
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Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
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A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
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I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
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One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
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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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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?
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