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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Being Building Clock Come Communism Concrete Crashing Crushed Down Freeing Instead Must Ourselves Reason Save Stopped Striking Try

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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Conquering Goal Himself His Loses Man Processes Set Soul World

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: All My Life Any Communist Either Indeed Legal Life Man My Life Objective Other Quite Regime Scale Society Spent Tell Terrible Will Without Worthy You

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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Arrived Chaos Intellectual

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Defend Human Human Rights Much Obligations Rights Time West

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Discovered Else Loses Someone Something Truth Truth Is

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You 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, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Behind Blow Clock Curtains Dawned Day Dear Dust Even Heavy Off Open Outside Suspect Throw Times Watches Which You Your

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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Author

Born: December 11th, 1918

Died: August 3rd, 2008

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