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A meek fellow ... is a real godsend in any gang.

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
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life
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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God that is why all this has happened.'
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
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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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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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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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A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
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Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions.
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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon it is not for them to crown the edifice.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
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