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Who will dare say he has defined art?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
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Military Personnel
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Opinion Journalist
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.
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Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
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I will tell you something else: it is a major responsibility not only of portraiture but of all human communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
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The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
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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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Not all of me shall die.
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
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Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.
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When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
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