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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Page 2 of 2Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
Nationality: Russian
Category: Author
Subcategory: Russian Author
|  Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. | | Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. | | I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. | | It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. | | 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. |
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