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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
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Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
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A hard life improves the vision.
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There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.
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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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Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
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I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
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