There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOf course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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