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...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
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We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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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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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.
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Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
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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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Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
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Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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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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I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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What a force is laughter.
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