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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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The less you speak, the more you will hear.
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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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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
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On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!
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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
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A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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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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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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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
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Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
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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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An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
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Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
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