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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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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
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There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.
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We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
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If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
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To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
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Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
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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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I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
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We particularly like people who value us highly.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!
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The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
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Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
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