A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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 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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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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