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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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If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
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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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We particularly like people who value us highly.
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Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
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When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
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... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
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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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If someone asked you, why not help him out?
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The term national idea is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the desired way of life in their country, an idea that holds sway over the population. A unifying concept like that can be useful, but should never be created artificially or imposed top-down by the powers-that-be.
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Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
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If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
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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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The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
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We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
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... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.
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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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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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