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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
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Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
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This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
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After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
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When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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