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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon it is not for them to crown the edifice.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
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A horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees. Our young post-Soviet state is just learning to respect the Church as an independent institution.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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