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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
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Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
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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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The one who pulls is the one they urge on.
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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
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To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
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One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.
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Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself to the utmost, to himself and to others.
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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
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It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
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What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
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