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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• The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. Building
• I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings. Beauty
• Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult. Cut
• All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. All
• Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. Boring
• As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage. Fed
• He who knows how to be content will be content with little. Content
• ... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him. All
• This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of… Communication
• But what can you say in a letter? Funny
• We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. Beforehand
• People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. Always Look
• When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting. Clarity
• In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. All
• If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. Death
• Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. Death
• Not all of me shall die. All
• ... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! Descartes
• We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. Attached
• An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ... Cannot Participate
• To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer. Build
• We particularly like people who value us highly. Esteem
• In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. Conviction
• People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish. Feelings
• 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, labor-union… Along

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