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Famous Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
“Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.”
“When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.”
“Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!”
“All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.”
“He who knows how to be content will be content with little.”
“We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.”
“People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.”
“When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.”
“If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.”
“Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.”
“... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!”
“We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.”
“People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.”
“A hard life improves the vision.”
“Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.”