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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
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Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
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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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Work is what horses die of
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God that is why all this has happened.'
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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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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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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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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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