We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNMan has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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