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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.
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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
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Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
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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 great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
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The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
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A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
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