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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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Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
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I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral responsibility for every word you write.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
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History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
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If it goes well with you, then all is well.
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It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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