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Quotes from The First Circle — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008 Russia

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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.

The First Circle (1968)

For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The First Circle (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.