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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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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
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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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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
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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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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.
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We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
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Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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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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