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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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Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.
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The October Revolution is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
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Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
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... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.
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A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a growing demand. Quite recently, the state-owned TV channel 'Russia' aired a series based on Varlam Shalamov's works, showing the terrible, cruel truth about Stalin's camps. It was not watered down.
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The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
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If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.
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In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
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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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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
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I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.
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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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Still, everybody wants to eat.
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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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