When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour … - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I have a voice coach, but only in so much as to make my voice stronger so I can sing for five nights a week, two hours.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

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The less you speak, the more you will hear.

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A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

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