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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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You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
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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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The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
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The October Revolution is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
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Education doesn't make you smarter.
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Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
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