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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
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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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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
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You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
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The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
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Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
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One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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When the whole discussion of developing a national idea hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.
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Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
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For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
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