Que su memoria viva para siempre

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.

Solo puedes tener el poder sobre la gente mientras no les quites todo. Porque cuando has robado a un hombre todo, entonces ya no está en tu poder - es libre otra vez.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 -2008 )

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Si fuera asi de simple! Si solo fuera gente mala en algun sitio perpetrando crímenes, y solo fuera necesario separarlos del resto de nostros y destruirlos. Pero la linea que divide el bien y el mal atraviesa el corazón de cada ser humano. Y ¿quien es capaz de destruir una pieza de su propio corazón?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 -2008 ), The Gulag Archipelago

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Hemos puesto demasiadas esperanzas en las reformas sociales y políticas, solo para darnos cuenta de que estabamos siendo privados de nuestra mas preciosa posesión: nuestra vida espiritual

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008 ), Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Vive con una constante superioridad sobre la vida - no te preocupes por la desgracia, ni persigas la felicidad; después de todo, todo lo mismo: lo amargo no dura siempre, y lo dulce nunca llena la copa hasta rebosar.