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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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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.
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If it goes well with you, then all is well.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Not all of me shall die.
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Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
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The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can vanquish lies! ... Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
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I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit...
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When the whole discussion of developing a national idea hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.
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We didn't love freedom enough.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
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