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Call no day happy 'til it is done call no man happy til he is dead.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.
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Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
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We didn't love freedom enough.
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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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People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.
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But nothing is all black in nature.
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Anything too far out of tune with our attitude is lost, either in the ears themselves or somewhere beyond, but it is lost.
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Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
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I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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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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