A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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