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If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: Men have forgotten God.
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 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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A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God that's why all this has happened.
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Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?
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Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
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Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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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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He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
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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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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
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The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
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Not all of me shall die.
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The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
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We will die, but art will remain.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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