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

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.
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I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
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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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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
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Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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We will die, but art will remain.
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
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We particularly like people who value us highly.
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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
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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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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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