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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God that is why all this has happened.'
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Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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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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One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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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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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
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