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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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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The perception of the West as mostly a knight of democracy has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
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If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.
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What a force is laughter.
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Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.
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I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?
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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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It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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