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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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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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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.
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Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.
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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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As the fathers live, so the children play.
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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
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What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.
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Who will dare say he has defined art?
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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Not all of me shall die.
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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
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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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