The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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