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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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 village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.
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A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
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The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.
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We will die, but art will remain.
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
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Was it Gorky who had said, If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
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You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.
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When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
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We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
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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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