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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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Education doesn't make you smarter.
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I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a growing demand. Quite recently, the state-owned TV channel 'Russia' aired a series based on Varlam Shalamov's works, showing the terrible, cruel truth about Stalin's camps. It was not watered down.
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A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
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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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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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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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We have ourselves to save.
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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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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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When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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