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Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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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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A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him.
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... that maxim of Descartes: Question everything! Question everything!
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I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
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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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Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
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Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology. The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
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