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Let me live. Keep me alive. Both sentences so close in English, but very different meaning.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
— 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
Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
— 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
Take me on R&R, aye? Back to where we were before, or a similar place. Sea, sky, sun, and sex 24/7. Deal?' ... 'Make that 12/7 - getting old.
— Aleksandr Voinov
I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs.
— Aleksandr Karelin
The past would always be part of the present, but at least that was true for both sides: the good and the bad.
— Aleksandr Voinov
Following orders is right. Giving orders for the wrong reasons isn't.
— Aleksandr Voinov
If you're just a soldier...what am I?""Just a king. — Aleksandr Voinov
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
— Aleksandr Kuprin
A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.
— Aleksandr Voinov
What do you want from me?" "Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward. — Aleksandr Voinov
Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
— 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
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He'd planned on finding a miracle, and he'd found one. There were many other joys in store for him today in this newly born world...
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cracks make caves collapse.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You're seriously in love, you know that? It's a great feeling, unless it hurts like a bitch.
— Aleksandr Voinov
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options.
— Aleksandr Voinov
The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
— J. Aleksandr Wootton
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If someone asked you, why not help him out?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live.
— Aleksandr Voinov
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What sins I commit, I commit them in the open.
— Aleksandr Voinov
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But food eaten quickly isn't food.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
She was wonderful, in spite of everything she was wonderful.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I'm a REAL National Socialist, you'd better believe it!
— Aleksandr Dugin
A hard life improves the vision.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.
— 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
What a force is laughter.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Make that cage golden, it's still a fucking cage.""Wel , in the absence of other options, gold will have to do. — Aleksandr Voinov
Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He could sense Kshar underneath, and he knew he'd be able to sense him in whatever body. Unchanged, genuinely him.
— Aleksandr Voinov
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.(Graukar) — Aleksandr Voinov
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
All the horror is in just this that there is no horror ... — Aleksandr Kuprin
Freedom or prisonwhat's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — 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
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By now we are even unsure whether we have the right to talk about the events of our own lives.
— 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
It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"There is only one thing I want to be part of. You."
— Aleksandr Voinov
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
— 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
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
— 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
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
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The real drug is to train like a madman, really like a madman.
— Aleksandr Karelin
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
— 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
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn