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The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it
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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
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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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To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
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The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
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If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society.
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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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And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
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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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If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results it was more humane to judge by intentions.
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It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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