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Truth seldom is pleasant it is almost invariably bitter.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
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Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?
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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.
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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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Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
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The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
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A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country
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For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
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Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
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Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!
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