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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
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 in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon it is not for them to crown the edifice.
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A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
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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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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
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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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To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.
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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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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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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
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In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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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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