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You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.
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 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.
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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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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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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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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
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Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Let your memory be your travel bag.
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To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
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