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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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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.
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Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.
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Cracks make caves collapse.
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One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.
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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
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It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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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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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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