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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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 asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God that is why all this has happened.'
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.
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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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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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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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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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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.
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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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Cracks make caves collapse.
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
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One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
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We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
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