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Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have ourselves to save. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The less you speak, the more you will hear. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He who knows how to be content will be content with little. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But we don't pray for that, I pray that I may do the will of God here. Give us this day ... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... the very concept of happiness is conditional, a fiction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 know how to read. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am a frail vessel full of errors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A hard life improves the vision. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

By now we are even unsure whether we have the right to talk about the events of our own lives. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What a force is laughter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn