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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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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
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Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.
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But nothing is all black in nature.
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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
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I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
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You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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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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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
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