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Which of us can control his feelings?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
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Military Personnel
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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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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In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.
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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God that's why all this has happened.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
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