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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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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
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Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.
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We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon it is not for them to crown the edifice.
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