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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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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.

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If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.

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

happiness
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

writing
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

happiness
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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.

love
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.