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I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
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Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!
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If it goes well with you, then all is well.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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We particularly like people who value us highly.
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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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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
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One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.
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When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
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