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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.
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Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
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If it goes well with you, then all is well.
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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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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Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear formulations, flat solutions, oversimplified explanations.
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To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
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