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A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
Historian
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.
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Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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