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When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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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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Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
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We will die, but art will remain.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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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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