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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
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 the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
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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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To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
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Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
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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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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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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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