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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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Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
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I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
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To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
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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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If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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