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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?
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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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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
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I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary, I have tried to convince my fellow citizens by citing the examples of highly effective local self-government systems in Switzerland and New England, both of which I saw first-hand.
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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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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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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
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