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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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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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