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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
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I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
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One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.
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It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.
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Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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... that maxim of Descartes: Question everything! Question everything!
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.
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If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.
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Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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