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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
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Was it Gorky who had said, If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.
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