How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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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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