When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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