The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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Own 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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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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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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