Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russia
11 Dec 1918 // 3 Aug 2008
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You only have power over people as 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.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays