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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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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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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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Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.
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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
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Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
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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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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
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Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
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If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
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Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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