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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
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It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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... any country that is not careful can be seized.
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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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A human being is all hope and impatience.
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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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When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.
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...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
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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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