Persons Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

12 Persons quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s twelve reflections cut to the core of moral resilience, offering stark, unflinching observations that still resonate in today’s complex world.

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Only an extraordinary person can turn opportunity into reality.

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If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

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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…

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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…

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest…

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Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he…

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If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to…

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Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself…

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In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

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You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock…' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons…

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If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves…

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The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in…

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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

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“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;…

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Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

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The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,…

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Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

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