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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
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
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
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When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
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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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Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
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