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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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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
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