A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOwn 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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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 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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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