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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology. The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
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We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
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Cracks make caves collapse.
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Education doesn't make you smarter.
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A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
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Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
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I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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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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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
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In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.
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