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... that maxim of Descartes: Question everything! Question everything!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are still moving towards some end-because we are still alive?
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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
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The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.
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We have ourselves to save.
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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