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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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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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Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.
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When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
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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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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
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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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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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There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.
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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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I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
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... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
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We will die, but art will remain.
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If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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