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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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It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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When the whole discussion of developing a national idea hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God that is why all this has happened.'
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Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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We have ourselves to save.
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We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world.
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The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
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In military science there is a principle more important than Forward: it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
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Your friend will argue with you.
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