There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human 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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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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.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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