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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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 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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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
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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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People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
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I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
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... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
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