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Education doesn't make you smarter.
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 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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The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
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I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
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Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
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... that maxim of Descartes: Question everything! Question everything!
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
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We will die, but art will remain.
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You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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