| 22 Famous Quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all”
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
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“The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it”
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“When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
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“Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.”
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“Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.”
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“Our envy of others devours us most of all.”
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“A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
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“It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.”
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“Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
Literature Quotes |
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“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”
Salvation Quotes |
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“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”
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“I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
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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.”
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“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it”
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“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”
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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.”
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“Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right”
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“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all”
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“Our envy of others devours us most of all”
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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