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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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Pages, Bitter, Blame

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Looks, Guilty, Enough

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.234, Macmillan

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• Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Self, Cold

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• And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation will poison your heart. They will take them away from you in a fight, and trying to hold onto your property will only leave you with a bloodied mouth ... But by owning things and trembling about their fate aren't you forfeiting the rare opportunity of observing and understanding?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Struggle, Heart, Fighting

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• If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Gambling, Forever, Action

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Respect, Should, Feels

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Truth, Real, Causes

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• It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Sea, Water, Puddles

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Persons, Nations, Convinced

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

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• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Religious, Peace, Voice

  Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

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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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Love, People, Achievement

  "Cancer Ward". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968.

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• I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Discovery, Philosopher, Ancient

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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• A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Tree, Storm, Break

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.528, Macmillan

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• We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Earth, Holding On, Incapable

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• Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ethics And Morals, Morality, Moral Ethics

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• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Trying, Communism, Building

  "How We Must Rebuild Russia". Komsomolskaya Pravda, September 18, 1990.

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• Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Children, Parenting, Vain

  "Cancer Ward".

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• Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Zero, Growth, Progress

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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.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Attitude, Blessing, Contentment

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• When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Why Not, Prison, Graves

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• How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Compassion, Cold

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• In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Responsibility, Writing

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• He who knows how to be content will be content with little.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Littles, Know How, Knows

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• Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Heart, Class

  "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Part IV, 1973.

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