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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.

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 have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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To coexist with communism on the same planet is impossible. Either it will spread, cancer-like, to destroy mankind, or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism (and even then face lengthy treatment for secondary tumors).
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... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.
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The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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European democracy was originally imbued with a sense of Christian responsibility and self-discipline, but these spiritual principles have been gradually losing their force. Spiritual independence is being pressured on all sides by the dictatorship of self-satisfied vulgarity, of the latest fads, and of group interests.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.
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If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
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