Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.”
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“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
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“When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.”
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“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.”
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“Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.”
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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 have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.”
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“You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.”
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“For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.”
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“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
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“Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.”
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
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“I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.”
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“The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.”
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“Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.”
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“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
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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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“... direct [people] 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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“Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.”
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“A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
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“We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.”
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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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“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”
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“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
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“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”
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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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“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
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“I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.”
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“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”
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