Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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