Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ✓

(1918–2008) poet Soviet Union

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[Wikidata] Russian writer, publicist, poet and politician (1918–2008)... | [Wikipedia] Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the

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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. Use your memory!… All
• Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but… Any
• On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity… Atheism
• If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone. Everyone
• Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights… Achieved
• We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells… Act
• It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the… Attitude
• What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice… Injustice
• Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. Dozen
• Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of… Assessment
• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its… Acts
• Let your memory be your travel bag. Bag
• We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. Comfortable
• The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart… All
• For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Communism
• Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change… Available
• This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will… Addition
• The name of eform simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. Covers
• You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's… Everything Away
• You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything… Everything Away

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