Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said this quote

“ Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. ”

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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them.Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn