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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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I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
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The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
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Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.
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If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
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If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
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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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... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
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Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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