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One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Age: 89 †
Born: 1918
Born: December 11
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne there is no way out.
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A hard life improves the vision.
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Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
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When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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