Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHuman beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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 God’s heaven.
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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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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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