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Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology. The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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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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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.
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Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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Cracks make caves collapse.
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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
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A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.
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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God that's why all this has happened.
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Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
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Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.
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