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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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What a force is laughter.
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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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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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
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Work is what horses die of
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
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In military science there is a principle more important than Forward: it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
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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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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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