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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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Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
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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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Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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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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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.
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We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
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A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
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The term national idea is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.
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A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
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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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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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