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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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 should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.
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We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
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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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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God that is why all this has happened.'
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Work is what horses die of
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.
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Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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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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I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
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