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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous.
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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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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
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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.
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... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!
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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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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
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