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Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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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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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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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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