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As the old proverb says: Well-fed horses don't rampage.
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
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If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
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Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology. The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.
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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
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Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
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As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
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