A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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