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We will die, but art will remain.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
Militant
Military Personnel
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
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School Teacher
Screenwriter
Writer
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
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The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
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If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
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I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
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Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
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I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God that's why all this has happened.
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It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
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