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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
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If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
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There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
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When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...
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Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon it is not for them to crown the edifice.
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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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