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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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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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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
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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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Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.
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It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
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There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead life to the living.
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I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
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It takes a fool to rush off to war!
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them.
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Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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