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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• Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme,… Air
• A forest doesn't weep over one tree. Forest
• Cracks make caves collapse. Caves
• Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup. Bowl
• Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered. Blundered
• No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. Accept
• Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good… Cause
• A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian. Cannot Understand
• The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even… Act
• We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs.… All
• A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to… Campaign
• Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess. Any
• It takes a fool to rush off to war! Fool
• Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. Any
• The one who pulls is the one they urge on. Funny
• A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane. Drop
• It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle. Drowns
• In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has… Age
• A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass. Bends
• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… Academy
• The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn… Archipelago
• On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs! Affair
• I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not… Accuse
• The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. Alley
• Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. Artist

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