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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 but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Cut Force Freedom Heart Interference Literature Memory Merely Nation Press Short Up Whose Woe

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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Be Happy Chooses Happy He Him Long Man Nothing Stop

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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Cold Expect How Man Understand Warm You

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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Being Cautious Forever Human Human Being Remain

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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Concern Everything Lies Making Mankind Only Salvation

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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Course Earth Endlessly Every Exists Face God Religion Represents Side Some

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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Country Ever Government Great Great Writer Having Like Loved Minor Only Regime Second Why Writer Writers

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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Belong Convict Education Forever Got Last Less Literature Russian Say Than Will Without World I Can

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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Communism Dead Dog Lion Living Many People Russia Still Us West

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Add Everything Truth You

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Author

Born: December 11th, 1918

Died: August 3rd, 2008

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