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Letter "A" » Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Quotes
«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.»
«I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer»
«Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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ADD, add to, subtract, subtracted, subtracting, subtracts
«Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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diseases, hastiness, In the press, psychic, reflected, superficiality, The 20th Century
«Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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cut short, excision, intrusion, intrusions, sealing, that nation
«He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.»
«For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.»
«If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
«I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.»
«This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addition will be, or where it will be put. At any point, I can call the book finished or unfinished.»
Author: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
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Books
| Keywords:
agglomeration, annex, annexed, annexes, annexing
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