Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNYou 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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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