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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 not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
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One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
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Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
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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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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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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.
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But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own.
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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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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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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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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
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I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
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If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
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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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