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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
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If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
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A human being is all hope and impatience.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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