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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.
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Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
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I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
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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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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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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
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