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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes


A Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed. Solzhenitsyn was the father of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.

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

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For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.

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When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

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No one can bar the road to truth and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.

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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. Aesop It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

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One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and no one can stop him.

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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?