Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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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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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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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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