Country Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press…

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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 is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

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Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar…

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“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken up justifiably. The military men, who knew they hadn't worked for foreign intelligence services and had not sabotaged the Red Army, believed readily enough that the engineers were wreckers and that the priests deserved to be…

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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; how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer,…

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

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That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

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You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

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