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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
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Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
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Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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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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Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
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