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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
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All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
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Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
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Cracks make caves collapse.
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How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
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Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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