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The quote argues that once a person chooses violence as a strategy, they are likely to rely on deception to sustain it. It presents violence and lying as connected habits that reinforce each other. The wording suggests that an initial moral compromise can lead to further dishonesty.
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Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
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About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soviet and Russian author and dissident
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident. He is known for drawing world attention to political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system, and for receiving the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. His nonfiction book The Gulag Archipelago confronted the Soviet state directly and reached a vast readership. The work made his critique of repression widely known and confirmed his place as a major voice in Russian letters.
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