Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Human 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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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. 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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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