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Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under Gods heaven. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. – John Keats

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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. – Nelson Mandela

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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. – Horace

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness. – Flannery OConnor

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