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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
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It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that past which ought not to be stirred up.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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