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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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The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
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Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
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I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
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You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
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Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
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There is something predetermined in the mutual attraction between Germany and Russia. Otherwise, this attraction would not have survived two ghastly World Wars.
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Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
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Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.
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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
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